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

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

0n September 30 the Marinette reported hopefully that "the fires have nearly _______ now in this vicinity."

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

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

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

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.

Stoddard might have been ________ by the odd cultural mix that New Orleans represented.

Slavery was not the only _______ of life in New Orleans that would have been unfamiliar to men like Captain Amos Stoddard.

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

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

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