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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Egan, Timothy. Big burn. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009 (OCoLC)795645360 |
| Named Person: | Theodore Roosevelt; Gifford Pinchot |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Timothy Egan |
| ISBN: | 9780618968411 0618968415 |
| OCLC Number: | 313658042 |
| Description: | x, 324 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Timothy Egan. |
Abstract:
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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