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Firestorm at Peshtigo - A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History (Paperback)
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Firestorm at Peshtigo - A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History (Paperback)
Series: Wisconsin
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"Novelist Denise Gess and historian William Lutz brilliantly
restore the event to its rightful place in the forefront of
American historical imagination." --"Chicago Sun-Times"
On October 8, 1871--the same night as the Great Chicago Fire--the
lumber town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, was struck with a
five-mile-wide wall of flames, borne on tornado-force winds of one
hundred miles per hour that tore across more than 2,400 square
miles of land, obliterating the town in less than one hour and
killing more than two thousand people.
At the center of the blowout were politically driven newsmen Luther
Noyes and Franklin Tilton, money-seeking lumber baron Isaac
Stephenson, parish priest Father Peter Pernin, and meteorologist
Increase Lapham. In "Firestorm at Peshtigo," Denise Gess and
William Lutz vividly re-create the personal and political battles
leading to this monumental natural disaster, and deliver it from
the lost annals of American history.
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