{"product_id":"firestorm-at-peshtigo-a-town-its-people-and-the-deadliest-fire-in-american-history-9780805072938","title":"Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNovelist Denise Gess and historian William Lutz brilliantly restore the event to its rightful place in the forefront of American historical imagination. --\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt 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 \u003ci\u003eFirestorm at Peshtigo\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Holt McDougal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780805072938\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.90d","brand":"William Lutz, Denise Gess","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36643907535004,"sku":"9780805072938","price":17.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_13858596-76a6-41dc-b3ee-8f8bfda775f0.jpg?v=1603857505","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/firestorm-at-peshtigo-a-town-its-people-and-the-deadliest-fire-in-american-history-9780805072938","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}