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The big burn, Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America, Timothy Egan

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The big burn, Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America, Timothy Egan
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-305) and index
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The big burn
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
505420674
Responsibility statement
Timothy Egan
Sub title
Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America
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
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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