The Fires of Autumn: The Cloquet-Moose Lake Disaster of 1918
- ISBN-10
- 087351257X
- ISBN-13
- 9780873512572
- Series
- The Fires of Autumn
- Category
- History / United States / State & Local / General
- Pages
- 246
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990
- Publisher
- Minnesota Historical Society Press
- Authors
- Francis M. Carroll, Franklin Roy Raiter
Description
In the fall of 1918, devastating forest fires swept across a major portion of northeastern Minnesota. Drawing on both published survivors' accounts and on trial testimony never publicized, the authors bring to light this saga of destruction, resurrection, and resilience in the face of adversity.
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