The big burn
Subtitle: Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America
By: Timothy Egan.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780618968411
Subjects: Roosevelt, Theodore, -- 1858-1919; Pinchot, Gifford, -- 1865-1946; United States. -- National Park Service -- History; Presidents -- United States -- Biography; Conservationists -- United States -- Biography; Forest conservation -- United States -- History; Nature conservation -- United States -- History; National parks and reserves -- United States -- History; Forest fires -- Montana -- History; Forest fires -- Idaho -- History
Genres: Biography
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-305) and index.
Table of contents: title: A fire at the end of the world; title: In on the creation. "A peculiar intimacy" ; Roost of the robber barons ; The Great Crusade ; Deadwood days ; Showdown; title: 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; title: What they saved. Fallout ; One for the boys ; Ashes.