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1910 Fires: Eye-Witness Accounts
The following are eye-witness accounts from citizens and Forest Service personnel who experienced The 1910 Fire.
Anna Sestak Lukens witnessed the historic 1910 Fires in western Montana. She was eight years old in 1910 and she tells her story 90 years later in 2000 in a short video made by Libby Langston.
1910 Fire Season by Elers Koch, 07-30-1940, 160 kb, 2 pages
1910 Fire Diary by Harry S. Kaufman, Forest Ranger, Absaroke National Forest, July - September, 1910
Account by Clarence B. Swin, 107 kb, .pdf, 1 page
Account by Ed Thenon, The adventures of three men in the Great Forest Fires of 1910, 4.39 MB, .pdf, 42 pages
Account by W.P. Hillman, 94 kb, .pdf, 2 pages
NEW! Bess Levengood Remembers the 1910 Fires, 1 page, .pdf
Elers Koch, History of 1910 Fires, 1.56 KB, 24 pages, .pdf
Letter from Wm Chance, 04-08-1938, 76 kb, .pdf, 2 pages
Memorandum for Mrs. Turrell, August 23, 1923, 355 kb, .pdf, 7 pages
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"My Experience as a Forest Ranger's Wife", by Emma Pulaski, written 1930's, 7 pages. (Recently re-typed because the original was difficult to read.) |
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Narrative by Frank Haun |
| Narrative by Roy A. Phillips |
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Notes on Observations in National Forests and Elsewhere During the Summer of 1910 by J.E. Kirkwood, 47 pages
Our Experience with the Forest Fires by Mr. Swaine, 4 pages, .pdf, 246 kb
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Pulaski, Two days in August 1910, |
Report for District One, 686 kb, .pdf, 8 pages
Reports of Supervisor Weigle on Fires of 1910 in which lives were lost, Wallace Idaho, June 24, 1911, 1.52 MB, .pdf, 57 pages
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The Big Fire by Joe B. Halm |
The Great Fires of 1910 by Williams W. Morris, 8 pages, .pdf, 732 kb
When the Mountains Roared, Stories of the 1910 Fire, IPNF, FS, USDA, 41 pages, R1-78-30 .pdf, 1.56 MB