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Archive for October 2021

Overshadowed by the Great Chicago Fire, Remembering the Great Peshtigo Fire

By Christopher Klein | October 15, 2021 | 0

Last Friday marked the 150th anniversary of the deadliest blaze in American history. Whipped by tornado-force winds that traversed a drought-stricken prairie, the fire that struck on October 8, 1871, reduced an entire Midwestern outpost to ashes and killed over 2,000 people.  The Great Chicago Fire? Nope. The Great Peshtigo Fire. Read all about this piece of…

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