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Depressions 1929 Great Plains Droughts Great Plains History 20th century Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939 Dust storms Great Plains History 20th century Forest conservation United States History Forest fires Idaho History Forest fires Montana History Great Plains History 20th century Great Plains Social conditions 20th century Social historyEgan, Timothy.
Summary: The unfogettable story of America's worst inferno and Teddy Roosevelt's triumphant struggle to save the American forest.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2009
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 973.911 EGAEgan, Timothy.
Summary: "Edward Curtis was dashing, charismatic, a passionate mountaineer, a famous photographer--the Annie Liebowitz of his time. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his great idea: He would try to capture on film the Native American nation before it disappeared. At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CURTIS, EDWARD EGAEgan, Timothy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2004
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EGACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EGAEgan, Timothy.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2006
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 978.03 EGAEgan, Timothy
Summary: "A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them. The Roaring Twenties--the Jazz Age--has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 322.4 EGACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.4 EGACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.4 EGACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.4 EGAEgan, Timothy.
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, THEODORE EGAEgan, Timothy.
Summary: Breaking Blue is what Sheriff Tony Bamonte did when he disregarded the blue code that forbids investigating a fellow police officer. While preparing his master's thesis, Bamonte discovered new evidence linking a local officer to the 1935 murder of town marshal George Conniff. This is a gripping story of cop against cop and a collision between two generations of lawmen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1992
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1 EGAEgan, Timothy
Summary: At a time when Britain, America, and much of Europe have never been so secular--and when his mother's death and his Irish Catholic family's complicated history with the church prompted a reckoning with his own beliefs -- Timothy Egan decided to follow in the footsteps of centuries of seekers. He embarked on a thousand-mile pilgrimage through the theological cradle of Christianity, to explore...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 263 EGAEgan, Timothy
Summary: "The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people who held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod homes...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 EGACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 978 EGACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 978.03 EGACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US EganEgan, Timothy.
Summary: "How one man's hunt through a half century of police cover-ups unlocked the secret behind the nation's oldest continuing murder investigation"--Jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1992
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EGAEgan, Timothy.
Summary: "From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told throughthe improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 MEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MEAGHER, THOMAS FRANCIS EGACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B MEAGHER EGASummary: Inspired by Timothy Egan's best-selling book, The Big Burn is the dramatic story of an unimaginable wildfire that swept across the Northern Rockies in the summer of 1910. The fire devoured more than three million acres in 36 hours, confronting the fledgling U.S. Forest Service with a catastrophe that would define the agency and the nation's fire policy for the rest of the 20th century and beyond.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2014