Big top burning : the true story of an arsonist, a missing girl, and the greatest show on Earth
(2015)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
Y/974.6/WOOLLETT,L
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Details
PUBLISHED
Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2015]
DESCRIPTION
167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781613731147, 1613731140 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Prologue -- The circus comes to town -- "The greatest show on earth" -- Fire! -- "The day the clowns cried" -- Municipal hospital -- "Who knows this child?" -- Who was to blame? -- Accident or arson? -- A name for Little Miss 1565 -- Epilogue
Draws upon primary source documents and survivor interviews to recount the story of one of the worst disasters in American history, the 1944 Hartford circus fire, which claimed the lives of over one hundred people