Fire, Pestilence, and Death: St. Louis 1849 by Christopher Alan Gordon Books Growing up in the coal

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Fire, Pestilence, and Death: St. Louis 1849 by Christopher Alan Gordon Books Growing up in the coalIn 1849, St. Louis was little more than a frontier town, swelling under the pressure of rapid population growth, creaking under the strain of poor infrastructure, and often trapped within the confines of ignorance and prejudice. The cholera epidemic and Great Fire of 1849 were both a consequence of those problems and, remarkably, a chance for the city to escape them. The author draws on the incomparable archives of the Missouri Historical Society,

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