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Hinckley Fire of 1894: Secondary Sources: Books & Articles

Articles

"Hinckley 1894: Those Who Died," by Antona Hawkins Richardson.
Transcribed from the official list of the dead compiled by Pine County coroner D.W. Cowan.
In Minnesota Genealogical Journal, no. 30 (Sept. 2003): pp. 2967-2974.
MNHS call number: Reading Room CS 42 .M553

The Great Hinckley Fire, by Stewart Holbrook.
In American Mercury. Vol. 57, no. 237 (Sept. 1943).
MNHS call number: SD421.32.M6 H65 1943

Books

Hinckley and the Fire of 1894, by Alania Wolter Lyseth. 
Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, 2014.
MNHS call number: SD421.32.M6 L97 2014

Wall of Flames: The Minnesota Forest Fire of 1894, by Lawrence H. Larsen.
Fargo, N.D.: The North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1984.
MNHS call number: Reading Room SD 421.32 .M6 l37 1984

From the Ashes: The Story of the Hinckley Fire of 1894, by Grace Stageberg Swenson.
Stillwater, Minn.: Croixside Press, 1979.
MNHS call number: SD 421 .S84
St. Cloud, Minn.: North Star Press of St. Cloud, 1988.
MNHS call number: SD 421 .S84 1988

The Great Hinckley Fire, by Clark C. Peterson.
Smithtown, N.Y.: Exposition Press, 1980.
MNHS call number: SD 421 .P48

The Hinckley Fire, by Antone A. Anderson and Clara Anderson McDermott.
New York: Comet Press Books, 1954.
MNHS call number: SD 421 .A54
Hinckley, Minn.: Hinckley Fire Centennial Committee and Hinckley Lions' Club, 1993.
MNHS call number: SD 421 .A54 1993

The Hinckley-Sandstone Fire, by Harold L. Fisher.
[Royalton, Minn.: H.L. Fisher, 1968?]
MNHS call number: SD421.32.M6 F57 1968

John Blair and the Great Hinckley Fire, by Josephine Nobisso.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
MNHS call number: SD421.32.M6 N62 2000

The Devouring Rages of Fire, by Clark C. Peterson.
Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Pub., c2006.
MNHS call number: SD421.32.M6 P48 2006

A History of the Great Minnesota Forest Fires: Sandstone, Mission Creek, Hinckley, Pokegama, Skunk Lake, by Elton T. Brown.
St. Paul, Minn.: Brown Bros., 1894.
MNHS call number: SD 421 .B87

Sixtieth Anniversary of the Great Hinckley fire: September First, Eighteen Ninety-four : 1894-1954 : Fire Pageant, Hinckley, Minnesota, August 14 and 22, 1954.
Hinckley Minn. : s.n., 1954.
MNHS call number: SD421.32.M6 S49 1954

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