An edition of The big burn
(2009)
The big burn
Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America
by Timothy Egan
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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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New York Times bestseller, nyt:paperback_nonfiction=2010-09-12, Roosevelt, theodore, 1858-1919, Pinchot, gifford, 1865-1946, United states, national park service, Conservationists, Forest conservation, Nature conservation, National parks and reserves, united states, Forest fires, Montana, history| Edition | Availability |
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The big burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America
2009, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
in English
0618968415 9780618968411
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The big burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America
2009, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Hardcover
in English
0618968415 9780618968411
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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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