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Show suggestion: The Great Peshtigo Fire

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Show suggestion: The Great Peshtigo Fire

Jun 14, 2009 8:40 AM
The October 8, 1871 the Peshtigo Fire in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, is the conflagration that caused the most deaths by fire in United States history (1700-2500). Having occurred on the same day as the more infamous Great Chicago Fire, the Peshtigo Fire is mostly forgotten. It is also the largest forest fire in US history burning 8 million acres.

There are several excellent books on this topic as well, I would suggest "Firestorm at Peshtigo".

I think this is a story that needs to be covered. Not only the fire itself but the fact that it is all but ignored because of the Chicago fire.
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