The big burn
Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America
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Author
Publication
2009 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
81,000 words, Guess
Page Count
324 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivebigburnteddyroos00egan
- Internet Archivebigburnteddyroos0000egan
- ISBN-100618968415
- ISBN-139780618968411
- Library of Congress Control Number2009021881
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number313658042
- Better World Books9780618968411
- Open LibraryOL23980196M
Classifications
- DDC973.911
- LCCE757 .E325 2009
- LCCE757.E325 2009
Description
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.
Subjects
Topics
Genres
- Biography
Other Editions
- The big burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America
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