NEWER SELECTIONS:
Firestorm at Peshtigo:
A Town, Its People and the Deadliest Fire in American History
- co-authors Denise Gess & William Lutz; Publisher: Henry Holt &
Company, Incorporated; Paperback, April 2003; ISBN:0805072934;
265pp
Peshtigo
- Author Bill Bergstrom; Publisher: Xlibris Corporation; 2003; Paperback;
ISBN: 1401098886
Ghosts of the
Fireground: Echoes of the Great Peshtigo Fire and the Calling of
a Wildland Firefighter - Author Peter M. Leschak; Publisher: HarperCollins
Publishers; July 2003; ISBN: 0062517783
" In this riveting
account, veteran wildland firefighter Peter Leschak takes the reader back
to Peshtigo, Wisconsin, where, in 1871, the deadliest fire in North American
history was fought. Leschak shows how the battle against that fierce blaze
profoundly influenced the manner in which firefighters work today."
* The
Great Peshtigo Fire: An Eyewitness Account
- Author Rev. Peter Pernin; Published by State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Staff; Paperback, May 1999; ISBN: 087020310X; Paperback, 64pp. This
is a republication of
the original account
written in 1871. Second edition 2003
* Fire
at Peshigo
- author, Robert W. Wells; Prentice-Hall, Inc., Eaglewood Cliffs, New Jersey;
1972 This is a collection of first hand accounts and memoirs of survivors.
Disaster
- Troy Allen; Castle Books, New Jersey; 1974
* Burning
bush : including Many rivers to cross -
by Alice Judy Behrend; Peshtigo, Wis. : Peshtigo Times, 1988.
* Indicates books of particular value
in first hand description, research of details and quality of writing. |
OLD SELECTIONS:
The Great
Fires In Wisconsin - author,
Frank Tilton; Robinson & Kustermann, Green Bay; published 1871
The Great Conflagration
- editors, James W. Sheahan and George P. Upton; Union Publishing Company,
Chicago; 1872
History of the
Great Fires - Frank Tilton; Robinson & Kustermann, Green Bay;
published 1871
State of Wisconsin - Journal of Proceedings
- Twenty-Sixth Annual Session In Assembly (State Congress); Atwood &
Culver, Madison, Wisconsin; 1873
The Milwaukee
Journal - Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 1871
The Marinette
and Peshtigo Eagle - Marinette, Wisconsin, October 1871
The Green Bay
Times - Green Bay, Wisconsin, October 1871
The Oconto County
Lumberman - Oconto, Wisconsin
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