Periodicals
Newspaper, magazine and journal articles,
listed in
reverse chronological order (most recent on top).
Jones, Robert F. "The Forgotten
Fire." Men's Journal Vol. 8, No. 9 (Nov. 1999).
[Back issues available for sale at http://www.mensjournal.com.]
Bloch, Kristie, and Robert Couvillion.
"Remembering the Peshtigo Fire." Peshtigo Times
(Oct. 7, 1998). [Special edition in tabloid format, 3 sections,
44 pages. Available for sale from the
Peshtigo Times.]
"Woodenware Factory Was Largest of
Its Kind in US." Peshtigo Times (Oct. 8, 1997). [Story accompanied by
photographs from after the fire recently acquired by the State Historical
Society of Wisconsin.]
Olson, Kris Beisser (compiler). "The Great Fire of October 1871:
A Nation Responds. Letters and Telegrams to
Governor Fairchild." Voyageur Vol. 13, No. 2 (Winter/Spring
1997). Green Bay, Wis: Brown County
Historical Society.
Phillips, Donna Potter. "Peshtigo,
Wisconsin: The 1871 Fire." Heritage Quest No. 68
(Mar./Apr. 1997). [Includes transcript of "The Dead in the
Burned District" from the 1873 Journal of Proceedings, an
independent transcription of which can be found here.]
Phillips, Donna Potter (transcriber).
"Census of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, 1870." Heritage
Quest Nos. 69-71 (1997). [Lists the 330 households in
Peshtigo as recorded in the 1870 federal census for Oconto
County.]
Davis, Lee. "Man-Made Catastrophes: From the Burning
of Rome to the Lockerbie Crash." Facts on File (1993).
Moran, Joseph and Lee Somerville. "Tornadoes of
Fire at Williamsonville, Wisconsin, Oct 8, 1871." Transactions of
the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters (1990).
Estep, Kim. "Tales
of Heroism and Tragedy Swirl Around Fire." Green Bay
Press-Gazette article (undated; 1990s?), as reprinted by
NOAA.
Martin, Michael. "Peshtigo: The Fire the
Nation Forgot." American Forests magazine (Sept
1983).
Wells, Robert W. "Fire, Wind and Death: Fire at
Peshtigo." Badger History, Vol. XXXIII, No. 2 (Nov. 1979) Madison, Wis.: State Historical Society
of Wisconsin. [Educational booklet for school children.]
Peshtigo Times Fire Centennial Edition, (October
1971).
Keith, Mary T. "Quest for milk brought Fire Victim to Peshtigo:
Letter from Survivor of 1871 Disaster Tells Graphic
Account of Night of Horror." Peshtigo Times (Oct. 18, 1952).
[Transcript.]
James, Pence. "Fiery Hell at Peshtigo."
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Oct. 6, 1946). Condensed in Reader's
Digest.
Schafer, Joseph. "Great Fires of
Seventy-One." Wisconsin Magazine of History 11:96-106 (September
1927).
Marinette and Peshtigo Eagle (Oct. 14,
1871). [First local newspaper account published after the fire. Transcript.]
Harper's Weekly, 25 November 1871. [Details not
available at this time.]
Milwaukee Journal, 8 October 1951. [Details not
available at this time.]
Green Bay Advocate, 5 October 1871.
An account of the preceding fire on 24 September 1871. [Details not
available at this time.]
