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Wildfire! : the 1871 Peshtigo firestorm
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Wildfire! : the 1871 Peshtigo firestorm

Author: Jacqueline A Ball
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Bearport Pub., ©2005.
Series: X-treme disasters that changed America.
Edition/Format:   Book : Juvenile audience : English
Summary:
Describes the October 8, 1871, firestorm that occurred when deadly flames rushed through the forest and hit a small logging town in Wisconsin like a bomb.
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Genre/Form: Juvenile literature
Material Type: Juvenile audience, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jacqueline A Ball
ISBN: 1597160113 9781597160117 1597160342 9781597160346
OCLC Number: 56422074
Description: 32 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Contents: An orange glow --
Disaster in the making --
Deadly wind --
Get to the river! --
Safe on Green Island --
"The saddest city in the world" --
Nothing but ashes --
Dry and dangerous --
Scarred for life --
Was it a comet? --
Can we prevent another wildfire? --
Peshtigo today.
Series Title: X-treme disasters that changed America.
Responsibility: by Jacqueline A. Ball ; consultant, Daniel H. Franck.
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Describes the October 8, 1871, firestorm that occurred when deadly flames rushed through the forest and hit a small logging town in Wisconsin like a bomb.

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