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Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Second Edition. Just about As New in all respects. Pesthigo Fire Musuem brochure laid-in. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Staple Bound. Condition: Fine. A2.

Reprinted from the Wisconsin Magazine of History 1971. Illus, 10 x 7.5", pict. wraps, unpaged, minor wear. Peshtigo historical Museum brochure present.

Bound in cloth spine and cloth tips and marbled paper-covered boards. Measures 5" x 3.5" Good only condition with sone repair to paper edges. With religious material glued in at the front endpaper and the rear paste-down. Scarce account of the Wisconsin first of 1871. Father Peter Pernin, a Catholic priest in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, survived the devastating Great Peshtigo Fire of October 8, 1871, by hiding in the Peshtigo River, losing his church but surviving to write a memoir, The Finger of God Is There!, to raise funds for rebuilding his parish, published in Montreal in 1874. The fire, fueled by drought and logging debris, became America's deadliest wildfire, killing over 1,500 people, but was overshadowed by the simultaneous Chicago Fire. In October 1871 Pernin was Catholic pastor of Peshtigo and Marinette, Wisconsin, neighboring logging towns on Green Bay. Occasioned by a summer long drought and carelessness with fire in a forest surrounding a town constructed of wood and strewn with logging debris, a disaster now known as the Great Peshtigo Fire engulfed Peshtigo on the night of October 8â"9, completely burning the town and killing upwards of 1500 people, the deadliest wildfire in American history.[18] Pernin survived the fire with hundreds of others, entering the Peshtigo River about 10 pm and submerging and splashing themselves in the water for five and a half hours.[19][20] Pernin's church and priest house in Peshtigo were burned in the fire. He also lost his church, priest house, and school building in the Menekaunee area of Marinette when fires burned Menekaunee while veering away from downtown Marinette to the west.[21][22] As a fundraiser to support the rebuilding of his parish facilities, particularly his church in Marinette, which he was renaming Our Lady of Lourdes, he conceived the idea of writing about his experiences of surviving the fire.[23] He wrote his memoir in French and traveled to Montreal in April 1874 to arrange for its publication as well as a translation in English. By June 1874 it had been published by Montreal publisher Eusà be Senà cal as Le doigt de Dieu est lÃ! ou Episode à mouvant d'un à và nement à trange racontà par un tà moin oculaire and simultaneously by Montreal publisher John Lovell as The Finger of God Is There! or A Moving Episode of a Strange Event Told By An Eyewitness.[24]. First Edition 1874. Written as a memoir and fund raiser after his Parrish burned down in the catastrophic fire of 1871.