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

William Lutz, Denise Gess

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

William Lutz, Denise Gess

267 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative slow-paced
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A riveting account of a monster firestorm -- the rarest kind of catastrophic fire -- and the extraordinary people who survived its wrath.On October 8, 1871 -- the same night as the Great Chicago Fire -- an even deadlier conflagration was sweeping ...

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