The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America
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Published
Boston : Mariner Books, 2010, c2009.
Edition
1st Mariner books ed.
Physical Desc
X, 324 pages, [8] pages of plates : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Status
Moab Library - Adult Non-fiction Book
973.911 EGAN
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973.911 EGAN
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Conservationists -- United States -- Biography.
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.
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.
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Published
Boston : Mariner Books, 2010, c2009.
Format
Book
Edition
1st Mariner books ed.
Street Date
0910
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
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 that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying towns and timber in the blink of an eye. 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. The robber barons fought Roosevelt and Pinchot’s rangers, but the Big Burn saved the forests even as it destroyed them: the heroism shown by the rangers turned public opinion permanently in their favor and became the creation myth that drove the Forest Service, with consequences still felt in the way our national lands are protected — or not — today.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Egan, T. (20102009). The big burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America (1st Mariner books ed.). Mariner Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Egan, Timothy. 20102009. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America. Mariner Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Egan, Timothy. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America Mariner Books, 20102009.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Egan, Timothy. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America 1st Mariner books ed., Mariner Books, 20102009.
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