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The big burn

Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America

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An edition of The big burn (2009)

The big burn

Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America

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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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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
Pages
324

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Nature conservation, Conservationists, Presidents, United States, United States. National Park Service, Forest fires, Forest conservation, National parks and reserves, Biography, History, Wildfires, Disasters, National forests, National parks, Waldbrand, Nordweststaaten, nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2009-11-08, New York Times bestseller, Roosevelt, theodore, 1858-1919, Pinchot, gifford, 1865-1946, United states, national park service, National parks and reserves, united states, Montana, history, Idaho, history, History, united states, Nature
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Table of 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.

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

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Boston
Genre
Biography

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973.911
Library of Congress
E757 .E325 2009, E757.E325 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 324 p., [8] p. of plates :
Number of pages
324

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OL23980196M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0618968415
ISBN 13
9780618968411
LCCN
2009021881
OCLC/WorldCat
313658042

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