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The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America / Timothy Egan

By:

Egan, Timothy

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2009Description: 324 p. : illus. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780618968411

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 ROO

LOC classification:

E757 .E325 2009

Contents:

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.

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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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	92 ROO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		065010

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-305) and index.

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.