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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313658042 Title: The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America Author: Timothy Egan Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. ISBN/ISSN: 9780618968411 0618968415 OCLC:313658042

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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

Author:	Timothy Egan
Publisher:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	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.
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Genre/Form:	Biography
Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Egan, Timothy. Big burn. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009 (OCoLC)795645360
Named Person:	Theodore Roosevelt; Gifford Pinchot
Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Timothy Egan Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780618968411 0618968415
OCLC Number:	313658042
Description:	x, 324 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Contents:	A fire at the end of the world -- In on the creation. "A peculiar intimacy" ; Roost of the robber barons ; The Great Crusade ; Deadwood days ; Showdown -- 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 -- What they saved. Fallout ; One for the boys ; Ashes.
Responsibility:	Timothy Egan.
More information:	Contributor biographical information Publisher description Sample text Table of contents only

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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.

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