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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America.

The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America.

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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America.

by Egan, Timothy

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  • Hardcover
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ISBN 10
0618968415
ISBN 13
9780618968411
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover in dust jacket, minor wear, light edge and corner wear, pages bright and binding tight, a very nice copy!

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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. 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.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America.
Author
Egan, Timothy
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Quantity Available
1
ISBN 10
0618968415
ISBN 13
9780618968411
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Place of Publication
Boston
Date Published
2009
LCCN
2009021881
Bookseller catalogs
US History;

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