Title:
The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America / Timothy Egan.
ISBN:
9780618968411
9780547394602
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Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
Physical Description:
x, 324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Contents:
A fire at the end of the world -- Part I. In on the creation : "A peculiar intimacy" -- Roost of the robber barons -- The Great Crusade -- Deadwood days -- Showdown -- Part II. What they lost : Summer of smoke -- Men, men, men! -- Spaghetti Westerners -- Firestorm's eve -- Blowup -- The lost day -- The lost night -- Towns afire -- To save a town -- The missing -- The living and the dead -- Part III. What they saved : Fallout -- One for the boys -- Ashes.
Summary:
Narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire of August, 1910, and Teddy Roosevelt's pioneering conservation efforts that helped turn public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service with consequences felt in the fires of today.
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OCLC Number:
ocn313658042
Availability:
Rosemount - Robert Trail~1
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