Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History

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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