The paper's editor, was ______ by the burning of the telegraph line.

Smoke sometimes ______ the sun, which was often visible only at midday.

As a further _______ of the territory's past governments, the Louisiana State Legislature met in the former palace of the Spanish governors,

Only a few years before, he had rejected a proposal for a national bank by _______ that the Constitution didn't empower the US. government to create such an institution.

The winds circling it would turn the smoldering forest of northeastern Wisconsin into ______ on earth.

In what might _______ readers today as a particularly chilling reminder of the city's previous masters, two pillories stood on Chartres Street.

Many separate fires ______ in the humus of the forest floor.

By October 4, the smoke was so thick on Green Bay that ships had to use their foghorns and ______ by compass.

The settlements in the area were becoming increasingly _______ from both the outside world and one another.

0n September 30, flames came within three miles of the town of Green Bay, _________, 1,200 cords of wood stored at a charcoal kiln.

Captain Amos Stoddard, a New Englander became one of the _______ of the new lands.

At least the smoke had greatly reduced the mosquito population had been _______ to the respectable citizens.

New Orleans still _________ in some forms, its odd cultural mix to this day.