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

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

€29,28

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

€29,28
Author: William Lutz
Format: Paperback
Language: English

"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.

Author: William Lutz, Denise Gess
Publisher: Holt McDougal
Published: 06/01/2003
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780805072938

About the Author

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.

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