Selected Bibliography

Richard F. Bales.  The Great Chicago Fire and the Myth of Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow.  Jefferson NC:  McFarland and Company, 2002.

Robert Cromie.  The Great Chicago Fire.  New York:  McGraw-Hill, 1958.

Herman Kogan and Robert Cromie.  The Great Chicago Fire:  Chicago 1871.  New York:  G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971.

David Lowe, ed.  The Great Chicago Fire:  In Eyewitness Accounts and Seventy Contemporary Photographs and Illustrations.  New York:  Dover Publications, 1979.

Ross Miller.  American Apocalypse:  The Great Fire and the Myth of Chicago.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1990

Karen Sawislak.  Smoldering City:  Chicagoans and the Great Fire, 1871-1874.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Carl Smith.  Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief:  The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman.  2nd ed.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 2007.