Barriers Burned Away

Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by John Frederick Kensett, George Inness and Albert Bierstadt. A rich man's son loses everything and takes work in Chicago as a hand — and then, in October 1871, the city burns for three days. Roe was a Presbyterian minister and a former army chaplain who came to see the ruins, decided the fire needed a novelist, and wrote his first book about it; ...