Damn the Old Tinderbox!: Milwaukee's Palace of the West and the Fire That Defined an Era

by Matthew J. Prigge

In the dead of an unassuming January night in 1883, Milwaukee's Newhall House hotel was set on fire. Two hours later, the building--once among the tallest in the nation--lay in ruins and over seventy people were dead. It was a tragedy that brought global notice to Milwaukee, with daring escapes and rescues and heart-wrenching tales of victims burned to death or killed as they leapt from the burning building. From the great horror emerged an even greater...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870208810
• ISBN13: 9780870208812
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.3"