HELLFIRE AT PESHTIGO

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Philyaw’s new rendition of an original illustration of the “Peshtigo Fire” -- Harper’s Weekly, Nov. 25, 1871. The “Peshtigo Fire” of 1871 was a result of many small fires carelessly kindled and left to burn for weeks on end. These many fires suddenly were visited by a cyclonic wind joining the fires into great conflagrations. This great conflagration was dubbed the “Peshtigo Fire” because it was at Peshtigo and its surrounding area that the fire was the most violent. Though not as recognized as the notorious “Chicago Fire” in Illinois State -- Wisconsin’s great “Peshtigo Fire” has taken the most human lives to date. Jim Chizek poetically takes his reader back in time to relive the horrible nightmare that was so many people’s final reality. Experience the horror in the full color illustrations of old publishings and new. Experience the tragedy of Peshtigo’s great loss in Jim’s collection of devastating photos taken after the fire, and the memorials created by the surviving townsfolk. Hellfire at Peshtigo is an impressive collection of work dedicated to the lost souls of the “Peshtigo Fire” and the men and women who fight fires to save lives today and throughout history.

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