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Two short articles by foresters (Cheyney and Hayden) in the immediate aftermath of the Cloquet Fire of 1918. They provide detail on why the fires occurred, extent of the damage, and critiques of the state legislature's lackluster forestry policy…

A comprehensive treatment of the 1894 forest fires that struck Hinckley, Minnesota and surrounding eastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin.

A comprehensive overview of the forest fires that struck northeastern Wisconsin in 1871. Predominantly focuses on Peshtigo, but also gives attention to smaller surrounding communities, as well as coordinated relief efforts.

Comprehensive treatment of the Fires of 1871, giving particular focus to the Great Chicago Fire. See pp. 259-294 for materials on the forest fires of 1871 through Peshtigo and other parts of Wisconsin and Michigan.

Focuses primarily on the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, putting it in context with other major urban fires in recorded history, including earlier Chicago Fires (1857, 1859, 1866, and 1868). The final six pages focus on the Peshtigo Fire.

This is the accompanying entry in which Hölzlhuber described his train ride through the Michigan forest fire in July 1859.

Austrian painter Franz Hölzlhuber ventured throughout Wisconsin and the Great Lakes region in the late-1850s, painting landscapes and city life. On a return trip to Milwaukee from Niagara Falls in the summer of 1859, he experienced a train ride…

Following a brutal 1908 fire season across the northern part of the state, newly settled Jewish residents near Hawkins, Wisconsin requested additional aid to survive the winter.

Newspaper coverage of the Metz Fire, affecting Metz and the surrounding Presque Isle County, Michigan. The fire burned over 2.5 million acres, and twisted rails led to the derailment of a relief train. In total, from the fire and from the derailment,…

This article explains how wet blankets protected the valuable gas and oil pumping stations from forest fires raging in Pennsylvania's oil region in May 1907.