Big Burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America

English

ISBN: 0547394608

EAN: 9780547394602

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State/Biography & Autobiography / Political/History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)/Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection/Travel / Parks & Campgrounds/

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers

Release Date: 08/19/2010

Synopsis: On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men, college boys, day workers, immigrants from mining camps to fight the fire. But no living person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them. Egan narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force. Equally dramatic is the larger story he tells of outsized president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester, Gifford Pinchot. Pioneering the notion of conservation, Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of public land as our national treasure, owned by and preserved for every citizen.

Awards: Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association Regional Book Award – null  Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association Regional Book Award – null  Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association Regional Book Award – null  Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association Regional Book Award – null  Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association Regional Book Award – null 

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Big Burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 1.0 inches

Width: 5.31 inches

Length: 8.0 inches

Weight: 12.03 oz

Pages: 352