Pamela J. Erickson

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“I grew up in Cloquet, and had heard about the fire since I was a little girl,” says Erickson. “But it wasn’t until my grandma told my sister and me how her family survived the fire -- by lying in the bottom of a shallow gravel pit on their farm and covering themselves with wet rugs and blankets -- that I realized I really didn’t know much of the details, and I wanted to find out more about what had happened.” After reading newspaper accounts of the fire, Erickson says she was struck by the number of people reported missing or assumed dead, who turned up alive and well a few days later. Because the fire spread so quickly, families became separated as they were forced to evacuate on four separate trains. Some people ended up in nearby Duluth, Minn., others in Superior, Wis. With no town or homes to return to, and all of the phone and telegraph lines burned, it took several weeks for many people to finally locate all of their family members. Erickson says this, along with her family’s story, became the inspiration for her book.

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Residence: Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota,USA

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    Books In Classes: [Fiction]
    Books In Genres: [Historical] [Young Adult]
    Books In Database: 1