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

Firestorm at Peshtigo A novelist and historian team up to tell the story of the October 1871 fire in the lumber town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, vividly re-creating the personal and political battles leading to this monumental natural disaster, and delivering it from the lost annals of American history. 16-page insert. 3 maps.