The big burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
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9780618968411, 0618968415, 9780547394602, 0547394608
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x, 324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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E757 .E325 2009
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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. Equally dramatic is the larger story 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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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. Equally dramatic is the larger story 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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Egan, T. (2009). The big burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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Egan, Timothy. 2009. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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Egan, Timothy, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.

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Egan, Timothy. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.

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