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The big burn Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America

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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...

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Main Author: Egan, Timothy
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
Subjects:
Roosevelt, Theodore, > 1858-1919.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
Conservationists > Biography.
Pinchot, Gifford, > 1865-1946.
Nature conservation > History.
National parks and reserves > United States > History.
United States. > National Park Service > History.
Forest fires > Montana > History.
Forest fires > Idaho > History.
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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.
Physical Description:x, 324 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-305) and index.
ISBN:9780618968411
0618968415
9780547394602 (pbk.)
Author Notes:TIMOTHY EGAN is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, a New York Times columnist, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in nonfiction, and the author of seven books, most recently Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher. His previous books include The Worst Hard Time, which won a National Book Award, and the national bestseller The Big Burn. He lives in Seattle, Washington."

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