Pre-Owned The Big Burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America (Hardcover) 9780618968411

from bookworm12

Teddy Roosevelt, national parks, wild fires, this nonfiction book offers a fascinating glimpse into America at the beginning of the 20th century. A huge wild fire in Idaho changed the nation's view on protecting our country's beautiful landscapes. Roosevelt and a man named Pinchot were the drivin...

from CasaBooks

These are my kind of books.Who knew . . . . about these fires in 1910 ? - none have ever been worse! about the towns lost and the heroes who fought the fires and how they failed or succeeded ? about Roosevelt's involvement with founding the National Forest Service ? about Gifford Pinchot and his ...

from EBT1002

The Big Burn is nonfiction and is about the creation of the US Forest Service and a huge fire in eastern Washington, Idaho, and Montana in 1910. The chapters about the fire itself were gripping. The horror of men (and women) caught in the conflagration is clear but Egan is not writing for shock-v...

from Kristelh

This is my second book by Timothy Egan. I think he does a really great job of making me angry with government bureaucracy but it was also a great read about life in America in 1910 and Teddy Roosevelt and other big names in the early years of Conservation, Forest Rangers and the battle between pr...

from AmberTheHuman

What an intense book! This was a gift from my fiancé, since he knows I am interested in reading about disasters. And the Big Burn of 1910 certainly is one. This book gives you a lot of context, but doesn't give a lot of opinion, which is nice, allowing the reader to create their own thoughts. The...