Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History by Denise Gess, William Lutz

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

Denise Gess, William Lutz

304 pages 2002

3 editions

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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...

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