Title The great Peshtigo fire : stories and science from America's deadliest firestorm / Scott Knickelbine.

Publication Info.	Madison, WI : Wisconsin Historical Society Press, [2012]
	©2012

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Description	1 online resource (80 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (page 76) and index.
Contents	A tornado of fire -- Burning to build, building to burn -- The forest in flames -- The path of death -- A smoking waste -- Lessons of the Peshtigo Fire -- Time Line.
Summary	Discover what a firestorm is and how one starts, find out what northeastern Wisconsin was like in 1871 and why fires broke out so easily, and hear stories about some of the adults and children who survived.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Peshtigo (Wis.) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
	Peshtigo Region (Wis.) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
	Fires -- Wisconsin -- Peshtigo -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
	Whirlwinds -- Wisconsin -- Peshtigo -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
	Forest fires -- Wisconsin -- Peshtigo Region -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
	Fires -- Social aspects -- Wisconsin -- Peshtigo -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
	Fires -- Wisconsin -- Peshtigo -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
	Forest fires -- Wisconsin -- Peshtigo Region -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION -- United States -- History -- State & Local.
	Fires. (OCoLC)fst00925697
	Fires -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00925712
	Forest fires. (OCoLC)fst00932142
	Whirlwinds. (OCoLC)fst01174570
	Wisconsin -- Peshtigo. (OCoLC)fst01228945
	Wisconsin -- Peshtigo Region. (OCoLC)fst01351539
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Other Form:	Print version: Knickelbine, Scott. Great Peshtigo fire. Madison, WI : Wisconsin Historical Society Press, ©2012 9780870204999 (DLC) 2012009085 (OCoLC)778424452
ISBN	9780870206023 (electronic bk.)
	0870206028 (electronic bk.)
Sudoc No.	HIS.2:P 48/2012 widocs

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