Author

Publication

2009 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

81,000 words, Guess

Page Count

324 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

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

Genres

  • Biography

Other Editions

  • The big burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved AmericaHoughton Mifflin Harcourt2009-01-01

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