Episode 231: The Peshtigo fire

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4.2 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

The deadliest fire in American history happened not in Chicago, but in a small Wisconsin town to the north of Chicago on the exact same day - October 8th, 1871.

Videos:

Articles and books:

Firestorm at Peshtigo, by Denise Gess and William Lotz
The Great Midwest Wildfires of 1871
Wisconsin Shipwrecks: The George L. Newman

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1:52.0	wherever you might be listening to me. Also, for this particular episode, the main source that I
1:57.9	used was Firestorm in Peshtigo. So that is the one that is a lot of this
2:05.4	information comes from. There are some other articles and videos that I did use the sources,
2:11.2	but that that really was the main source. And a big shout out to the history guy without
2:16.9	whose video on this disaster, I would still
2:19.3	be mispronouncing the word Pestigo, like I have been for God knows how long now.
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