Ashes of Peshtigo

On the evening of October 8, 1871, a fire broke out in a barn in Illinois, sparking the legendary Great Chicago Fire. That same night, just a few hundred miles north, a vastly more terrifying and deadly inferno was born. Yet, because of the media's obsession with the destruction of a major metropolis, the deadliest wildfire in American history was completely erased from the national memory. Ashe...