What Was the Great Chicago Fire?
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- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2016
Summary
Did the Great Chicago Fire really start after a cow kicked over a lantern in a barn? Find out the truth in this addition to the What Was? series.
On Sunday, October 8, 1871, a fire started on the south side of Chicago. A long drought made the neighborhood go up in flames. And practically everything that could go wrong did. Firemen first went to the wrong location. Fierce winds helped the blaze jump the Chicago River twice. The Chicago Waterworks burned down, making it impossible to fi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780399541582 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0399541586 |
| Author: | Janet B. Pascal, Tim Foley, Who HQ |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Grosset & Dunlap Inc.,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2016 |
| Weight: | 125g |
| Dimensions: | 192mm x 135mm x 7mm |
| Series: | What Was? |
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Janet B. Pascal
Janet Pascal is the Executive Production Editor at Viking Children’s Books and the author of Who Was Dr. Seuss?, Who Was Abraham Lincoln?, What Is the Panama Canal?, and What Was the Hindenburg?
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