Source: Futility Closet
In 1871, while the Great Chicago Fire was riveting the nation’s attention, a blaze six times as deadly was ravaging a desperate town in northeastern Wisconsin. In this week’s episode of the Futility Closet podcast we’ll tell the story of the Peshtigo fire, the deadliest wildfire in American history.
We’ll also watch an automated western and puzzle over some discounted food.
Intro:
Harry Mathews composed a poem in which every syllable is doubled.
In 1766, French draughtsman Charles-Louis Clérisseau painted a Roman room to resemble a ruin.
Sources for our feature on the Peshtigo fire:
Denise Gess and William Lutz, Firestorm at Peshtigo, 2002.
Peter Pernin, “The Great Peshtigo Fire: An Eyewitness Account,” Wisconsin Magazine of History 54:4 (Summer 1971), 246-272.
United States Department of Agriculture, Report on Forestry, Volume 3, 1882.
William F. Steuber Jr., “The Problem at Peshtigo,” Wisconsin Magazine of History 42:1 (Autumn 1958), 13-15.
Hutch Brown, “‘The Air Was Fire’: Fire Behavior at Peshtigo in 1871,” Fire Management Today 64:4 (Fall 2004), 20-30.
Sara E. Caton, et al., “Review of Pathways for Building Fire Spread in the Wildland Urban Interface Part I: Exposure Conditions,” Fire Technology 53:2 (2017), 429-473.
Jack Cohen, “The Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Problem,” Forest History Today 11 (2008), 20-26.
Lisa A. Schulte and David J. Mladenoff, “Severe Wind and Fire Regimes in Northern Forests: Historical Variability at the Regional Scale,” Ecology 86:2 (2005), 431-445.
Robert N. Meroney, “Fire Whirls and Building Aerodynamics,” Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Wind Engineering, 2003.
Stewart Holbrook, “The Peshtigo Fire,” American Scholar 13:2 (Spring 1944), 201-209.
Michael E. Telzrow, “The Peshtigo Fire,” New American 22:5 (March 6, 2006), 33-38.
John Steele Gordon, “Forgotten Fury,” American Heritage 54:2 (April/May 2003), 35.
Tom Skilling, “Was Peshtigo Fire Worse Than the Great Chicago Fire?” Chicago Tribune, Oct. 7, 2018.
Chelsey Lewis, “Remembering America’s Deadliest Forest Fire,” Wausau [Wis.] Daily Herald, July…
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