text The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America
- 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... Read more
- 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 ; ... Read more
- Format
- text
- Description
- x, 324 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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| Woodmere (Main Branch) | 921 ROOSEVELT, THEODORE EGA in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
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| TADL-WOOD | 921 ROOSEVELT, THEODORE EGA in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919
Presidents United States Biography
Conservationists United States Biography
Pinchot, Gifford 1865-1946
Forest conservation United States History
Nature conservation United States History
National parks and reserves United States History
United States. National Park Service History
Forest fires Montana History
Forest fires Idaho History
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| Woodmere (Main Branch) | 921 ROOSEVELT, THEODORE EGA in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
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