Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History
- ISBN-10
- 0805072934
- ISBN-13
- 9780805072938
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-06
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Authors
- William Lutz, Denise Gess
Description
Re-creates the events of the most devastating fire in American history, documenting the conflagration that swept through Peshtigo, Wisconsin, on October 8, 1871--the same night as the Great Chicago Fire--incinerating more than 2,400 square miles of land, obliterating Peshtigo, and killing more than two thousand people. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
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- 2002-08-02
- 267 pages
- Paperback
- Macmillan
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