The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America
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Bellevue - Adult Non-Fiction | 973.911 E287b | On Shelf |
Donelson - Adult Non-Fiction | 973.911 E287b | On Shelf |
Main Library - Adult Non-Fiction | 973.911 E287b | On Shelf |
Subjects
LC Subjects
Biographies.
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.
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.
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
x, 324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-305) 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. 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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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Egan, T. (2009). The big burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Egan, Timothy. 2009. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Egan, Timothy. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Egan, Timothy. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
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