The Peshtigo Fire - Deana C. Hipke This is an excellent comprehensive site covering many aspects of the fire up to the present time. Very informative and easy to use.
The Great Peshtigo Fire: An Eyewitness Account by Reverend Peter Pernin - from the Wisconsin Magazine of History 1971
Excerpt from: The Great Peshtigo Fire: An Eyewitness Account second edition, by Reverend Peter Pernin
Tales
of Heroism and Tragedy
- By Kim Estep, Green Bay Press-Gazette
A survivor of the calamitous
fire of October
8, 1871,
recounts the anguish and the
heroism of the
populace
of Peshtigo and the
neighboring Sugarbush.