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In the article ” Did the Cow Do It? A New Look at the Cause of the Great Chicago Fire” by Richard Bales, he tells the story of how the biggest fire in Chicago’s was started by a cow that kicked over a lantern.  This article is a great example of historiography because as stated in gparker77‘s blog post that historiography is  ” a way other historians try to take a new angle at another scholar’s work or to try and disprove what their statement is with their own facts and interpretations.” This is because in the article about the Great Chicago Fire, Bales brings up different viewpoints throughout the article about what supposedly happened with Harry Albert Musham’s take on the events of the fire and stating that Mrs. O’Leary was the one to blame for the fire. And then the following analysis of Musham’s account of the fire, stating that he did not take into account the 7 factors that Bales states turned what could have been an ordinary fire into one of the biggest fires that Chicago had ever seen. Bales analysis of the Great Fire of Chicago is very convincing due to the first person accounts that he includes in his article that disprove some aspects of what has become a myth about how the fire started and gives more evidence on how really was the one that started the fire. This is because Bales includes personal accounts of other people that lived near the O’Leary’s home and witnessed the fire that broke out in the barn.