MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2009021881
003 DLC
005 20091229102448.0
008 090528s2009 mauabf b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aE757$b.E325 2009
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100 1 $aEgan, Timothy.
245 14 $aThe big burn :$bTeddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America /$cTimothy Egan.
260 $aBoston :$bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt,$c2009.
300 $ax, 324 p., [8] p. of plates :$bill., map ;$c24 cm.
520 $aNarrates 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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [287]-305) and index.
505 0 $aA 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.
600 10 $aRoosevelt, Theodore,$d1858-1919.
650 0 $aPresidents$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aConservationists$zUnited States$vBiography.
600 10 $aPinchot, Gifford,$d1865-1946.
650 0 $aForest conservation$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aNature conservation$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aNational parks and reserves$zUnited States$xHistory.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bNational Park Service$xHistory.
650 0 $aForest fires$zMontana$xHistory.
650 0 $aForest fires$zIdaho$xHistory.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1003/2009021881-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1003/2009021881-d.html