Susan M. Gordon's Blog

Does Anyone know where the world's deadliest wildfire took place? Read my book Conflagration: How Love and Courage Survived America’s Deadliest Fire, and you will know. Susan M. Gordon

A Conflagration is more than a great fire. It is what happens when a single spark, under the right conditions, consumes everything it touches.

Everyone has heard of the Great Chicago Fire. But that same night, hundreds of miles north, the deadliest fire in America burned at the very same time. I saw it mentioned in “The Gilded Age”. I wrote about a real couple who lived through the fire.Conflagration: How Love and Courage Survived America’s[book:Conflagration: How Love and Courage Survived America’s[book:Conflagration: How Love and Courage Survived America’s Deadliest Fire Deadliest Fire|252065894] Deadliest Fire|252065894]