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.