Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:William Lutz, Denise GessSeries:WisconsinPublish date:2003-06-01Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Holt PaperbacksISBN-13:9780805072938ISBN-10:805072934UPC:9780805072938Book Category:Nature, History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Natural Disasters, United StatesBook Topic:19th CenturySize:8.10 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC91T0A6MY
Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History
"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...Series: Wisconsin
Language:EnglishPublisher:Holt PaperbacksISBN-13:9780805072938ISBN-10:805072934UPC:9780805072938Book Category:Nature, History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Natural Disasters, United StatesBook Topic:19th CenturySize:8.10 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC91T0A6MY
Denise Gess, author of two critically acclaimed novels, is the visiting assistant professor of fiction writing at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
William Lutz is a professor of English at Rutgers University and the author of fifteen books, including the bestseller Doublespeak. They live in Philadelphia.Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
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