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Author Egan, Timothy.

Title The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America / Timothy Egan.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1398123~S1
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 Naper Blvd. Adult Nonfiction  973.911 EGA    DUE 05-12-24
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Description x, 324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-305) and index.
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.
Subject Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946.
Forest conservation -- History.
Nature conservation -- History.
National parks and reserves -- History.
Forest fires -- Montana -- History.
Forest fires -- Idaho -- History.
Presidents -- Biography.
Conservationists -- Biography.
United States. National Park Service -- History.
ISBN 9780618968411 (hardcover)
0618968415 (hardcover)
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