| Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History Contributor(s): Lutz, William (Author), Gess, Denise (Author) |
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ISBN: 0805072934 ISBN-13: 9780805072938 Publisher: Holt Paperbacks OUR PRICE: $18.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2003 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Natural Disasters - History | United States - 19th Century - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: 977.533 |
| LCCN: 2002017279 |
| Series: Wisconsin |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.1" (0.70 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Geographic Orientation - Wisconsin |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lutz, William: - William Lutz is a professor of English at Rutgers University and the author of fifteen books, including the bestseller Doublespeak. He lives in Philadelphia.Gess, Denise: - Denise Gess, author of two critically acclaimed novels, is the visiting assistant professor of fiction writing at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. |