{"product_id":"9780805072938","title":"Firestorm at Peshtigo A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History - Denise Gess ; William Lutz","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003eFirestorm at Peshtigo A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History\u003c\/u\u003e by Denise Gess ; William Lutz\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by Macmillan, 2003\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\n\nOn 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.\n\n\n\nAt 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.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eProduct image is for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the product offered for sale.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan, 2003","offers":[{"title":"Firestorm at Peshtigo A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History \/ Very Good","offer_id":56008686764324,"sku":"9780805072938VG","price":7.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/9951\/4148\/files\/public_4377cf10-4381-4dad-b1a6-e6aa6e750e89.jpg?v=1786461554","url":"https:\/\/brookingsbooks.com\/products\/9780805072938","provider":"Brookings Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}