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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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, NatureShowing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
Aug 28, 2020, HMH Audio
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0358417791 9780358417798
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Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
2009, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
in English
1299882056 9781299882058
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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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Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
2009, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
in English
0547416865 9780547416861
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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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