Christopher Alan Gordon

Christopher Alan Gordon ist ein amerikanischer Autor und Historiker mit Sitz in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Gordon's latest work, Fire, Pestilence, and Death: St. Louis 1849, focuses on the many dramatic events which occurred in one of the most fateful years in the history of St. Louis, Missouri, a city which sat on the edge of the American Frontier. Struggling to meet the challenges of thousands of arriving German and Irish immigrants, as well as, thousands more Americans bound for the open territories of the American West, the city nearly broke under the strain of a population explosion and all the problems which accompanied its circumstances.

Told primarily through the voices of those who witnessed the ravages of the America's deadliest cholera epidemic, a devastating fire which nearly engulfed all of St. Louis, increasing violent crime, and a turbulent political climate, their stories stand as a testament to the courage and fortitude of a people who were living in the most uncertain of times.