The Great Boston Fire
eBook - ePub

The Great Boston Fire

The Inferno That Nearly Incinerated the City

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Great Boston Fire

The Inferno That Nearly Incinerated the City

About this book

For two days in November, 1872, a massive fire swept through Boston, leaving the downtown in ruins and the population traumatized. Coming barely a year after the infamous Chicago fire, Boston's inferno turned out to be one of the most expensive fires per acre in US history. Yet today few are aware of how close Boston came to destruction. Boston author Stephanie Schorow masterfully recounts the fire's history from the foolish decisions that precipitated it to the heroics of firefighters who fought it. Lavishly illustrated with period artwork and photographs and published just before the fire's 150th anniversary, The Great Boston Fire captures the drama of a life-and-death battle in the heart of the city.

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Table of contents

  1. Prologue: “Don’t Try to Magnify the Wants of Your Department”
  2. Introduction: Built on Ash
  3. Chapter 1: Hubris in the Hub
  4. Chapter 2: A Self-Reliant Man
  5. Chapter 3: A Hot Time in the Old Town
  6. Chapter 4: Black Beauty Down: The Horse Flu
  7. Chapter 5: The Spark
  8. Chapter 6: Out of Control
  9. Chapter 7: The Fire Fiend
  10. Chapter 8: Guts and Gunpowder
  11. Chapter 9: The Fire That Would Not Die
  12. Chapter 10: Seeing Double
  13. Chapter 11: “We Are Burnt Out”
  14. Chapter 12: Who Is to Blame?
  15. Chapter 13: Rebuilt and Reborn
  16. Chapter 14: Damrell’s Last Stand
  17. Chapter 15: The Long Slow Sleep of the Fire Fiend
  18. Afterword
  19. Notes
  20. Further Reading
  21. Acknowledgments
  22. About the Author