Mrs. O'Leary's Comet

Cosmic Causes of the Great Chicago Fire

• Author(s): Mel Waskin,
• Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
• Pages: 168
• ISBN_10: 0897331818
  ISBN_13: 9780897331814
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / State & Local / General , History / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) , Science / Space Science / Astronomy ,

Description:... 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.