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Did Mrs O'Leary's cow cause the fire? Or was it something different, something much bigger? Mel Waskin explores the bigger possibility -- that the Chicago Fire was caused by the earth's collision with a comet. He draws on a wide range of sources, from speculations on catastrophism to astronomical observations to eyewitness accounts of the fateful night in Chicago, and in Wisconsin and Michigan, where companion fires blazed.
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Mrs. O'Leary's Comet: Cosmic Causes of the Great Chicago Fire
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Academy Chicago Publishers, Chicago, 1985
ISBN 10: 0897331672
ISBN 13: 9780897331678
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Seller: Downtown Brown Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First Edition. A book that explores the idea that a comet colliding with the earth could have caused the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. This is the scarce hardcover version (there was a simultaneous issue in paperback). First edition (first hardcover printing). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 362649