The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America
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Egan, Timothy.
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Boston : Mariner Books, 2010.
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1st Mariner Books ed.
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x, 324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
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Boston : Mariner Books, 2010.
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1st Mariner Books ed.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-305) and index.
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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.

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Biographies.
Conservationists -- United States -- Biography.
Forest conservation -- United States -- History.
Forest fires -- Idaho -- History.
Forest fires -- Montana -- History.
National parks and reserves -- United States -- History.
Nature conservation -- United States -- History.
Pinchot, Gifford, -- 1865-1946.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Roosevelt, Theodore, -- 1858-1919
United States. -- National Park Service -- History.