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THE BIG BURN: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America.
de Egan, Timothy
- Usado
- Estado
- Near fine.
- ISBN 10
- 0618968415
- ISBN 13
- 9780618968411
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Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, (2010). Near fine.. Trade paperback. Gripping account by this National Book Award winning author of the worst wild fire in the history of the United States. ÑA wind-swept wildfire that began on August 20, 1910, and consumed three million acres of forest in Idaho, Montana and Washington in just 36 hours. But paradoxically, this forest fire was the event that cemented the heroism of the young Forest Service (only 5 years old at the time) in the public mind and galvanized Teddy Roosevelt's campaign for public lands. Winner of the 2010 Washington State Book Award for history. Map, photographs, notes on sources, index. 324 pp.
Sinopsis
On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men—college boys, day workers, immigrants from mining camps—to fight the fire. But no living person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them. Egan narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force. Equally dramatic is the larger story he tells of outsized president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester, Gifford Pinchot. Pioneering the notion of conservation, Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of public land as our national treasure, owned by and preserved for every citizen.
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- Título
- THE BIG BURN: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America.
- Autor
- Egan, Timothy
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near fine.
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0618968415
- ISBN 13
- 9780618968411
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin,
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston:
- Fecha de publicación
- (2010)
- LCCN
- 2009021881
- Palabras clave
- wild fires, us history, theodore roosevelt, forest service, gifford pinchot, buffalo soldiers, conservation, national forests, 2010 Washington State Book Award for history
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Western Americana;
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