The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America
Egan, Timothy
The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America / Timothy Egan - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2009 - 324 p. : illus. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-305) and index.
A fire at the end of the world -- In on the creation. "A peculiar intimacy" ; Roost of the robber barons ; The Great Crusade ; Deadwood days ; Showdown -- 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 -- What they saved. Fallout ; One for the boys ; Ashes.
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.
English.
9780618968411
Roosevelt, Theodore (, 1858-1919.)
Pinchot, Gifford (, 1865-1946.)
United States . National Park Service ---History
Presidents---United States----Biography
Conservationists---United States----Biography
Forest conservation
Nature conservation
National Parks---United States
Forest fires---History---Montana
Forest fires---History---Idaho
E757 / .E325 2009
92 ROO
The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America / Timothy Egan - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2009 - 324 p. : illus. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-305) and index.
A fire at the end of the world -- In on the creation. "A peculiar intimacy" ; Roost of the robber barons ; The Great Crusade ; Deadwood days ; Showdown -- 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 -- What they saved. Fallout ; One for the boys ; Ashes.
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.
English.
9780618968411
Roosevelt, Theodore (, 1858-1919.)
Pinchot, Gifford (, 1865-1946.)
United States . National Park Service ---History
Presidents---United States----Biography
Conservationists---United States----Biography
Forest conservation
Nature conservation
National Parks---United States
Forest fires---History---Montana
Forest fires---History---Idaho
E757 / .E325 2009
92 ROO
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