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The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America  Cover Image Book Book

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

Egan, Timothy (Author).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0618968415
  • ISBN: 9780618968411
  • ISBN: 9780547394602
  • ISBN: 0547394608
  • Physical Description: x, 324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2009]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Editions may vary.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue: 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.
Subject: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
Conservationists > United States > Biography
Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946.
Forest conservation > United States > History.
Nature conservation > United States > History
National parks and reserves > United States > History
United States. National Park Service > History.
Forest fires > Montana > History.
Forest fires > Idaho > History.
United States. Forest Service > History.
Forest reserves > United States > History.
United States. Forest Service > History.
Forest policy > United States > History.

Available copies

  • 22 of 22 copies available at Sage Library System.

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  • 0 current holds with 22 total copies.
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Arlington Public Library 973.911 EGA (Text) 37812000112354 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Athena Public Library 973.9 EGA (Text) 37813000127244 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Baker County Library 973.911 .E28b (Text) 37814002440098 NON-FICTION Available -
Baker Halfway Branch 973.911 .E28b (Text) 37814002387521 NON-FICTION Available -
Blue Mountain Community College Library 973.911 Eg13b (Text) 35410000165456 Hermiston Center Available -
Cook Memorial Library - La Grande 973.911/E29 (Text) 35178001198855 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Grant County Library 973.9 Egan (Text) 37845000105440 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Harney County Library 973.911 EGAN (Text) 37720000202184 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Hood River County Library 973.911 EGA 2009 (Text) 33892005300828 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Hood River County Library 973.911 EGA 2009 (Text) 33892005580817 Adult Non-Fiction Available -


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