The big burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America
(Book)
1 copy on order.
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.
Forest conservation -- United States -- History.
Forest fires -- Idaho -- History.
Forest fires -- Montana -- History.
National parks and reserves -- United States -- History.
Nature conservation -- United States -- History.
Pinchot, Gifford, -- 1865-1946.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Roosevelt, Theodore, -- 1858-1919.
United States. -- National Park Service -- History.
Notes
Egan, T. (2009). The big burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Egan, Timothy. 2009. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Egan, Timothy, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
MLA Citation (style guide)Egan, Timothy. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
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505 | 0 | |a 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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