The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America /
Egan, Timothy.
The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America / Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America Timothy Egan. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. - x, 324 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
0618968415 9780547394602 9780618968411
2009021881
Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
United States. National Park Service --History.
Conservationists--United States--Biography.
Forest conservation--History.--United States
Forest fires--History.--Idaho
Forest fires--History.--Montana
National parks and reserves--History.--United States
Nature conservation--History.--United States
Presidents--United States--Biography.
The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America / Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America Timothy Egan. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. - x, 324 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
0618968415 9780547394602 9780618968411
2009021881
Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
United States. National Park Service --History.
Conservationists--United States--Biography.
Forest conservation--History.--United States
Forest fires--History.--Idaho
Forest fires--History.--Montana
National parks and reserves--History.--United States
Nature conservation--History.--United States
Presidents--United States--Biography.