The Great Boston Fire : an inferno that nearly incinerated the city /
"The 1872 Great Boston Fire was barely contained after two days of spreading rapidly across the city, becoming one of the most expensive fire disasters in America"--
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Guilford, Connecticut :
Globe Pequot,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: "Don't try to magnify the wants of your department"
- Introduction: Built on ash
- Hubris in the hub
- A self-reliant man
- Hot time in the old town
- Black Beauty down : the horse flu
- The spark
- Out of control
- The fire fiend
- Guts and gunpowder
- The fire that would not die
- Seeing double
- "We are burnt out"
- Who is to blame?
- Rebuilt and reborn
- Damrell's last stand
- The long slow sleep of the fire fiend.