The Resource The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America, Timothy Egan
The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America, Timothy Egan
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The item The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America, Timothy Egan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 5 library branches.
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 324 pages, [8] pages of plates
- Contents
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- A fire at the end of the world
- In on the creation. "A peculiar intimacy" ; Roost of the robber barons ; The Great Crusade ; Deadwood days ; Showdown
- What they lost. Summer of smoke ; Men, men, men! ; Spaghetti Westerners ; Firestorm's eve ; Blowup ; The lost day ; The lost night ; Towns afire ; To save a town ; The missing ; The living and the dead
- What they saved. Fallout ; One for the boys ; Ashes
- Isbn
- 9780618968411
- Label
- The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America
- Title
- The big burn
- Title remainder
- Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America
- Statement of responsibility
- Timothy Egan
- Subject
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- 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
- Conservationists -- United States -- Biography
- Presidents -- United States -- Biography
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
- United States, National Park Service -- History
- Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Egan, Timothy
- Dewey number
- 973.911
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E757
- LC item number
- .E325 2009
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Roosevelt, Theodore
- Presidents
- Conservationists
- Pinchot, Gifford
- Forest conservation
- Nature conservation
- National parks and reserves
- United States
- Forest fires
- Forest fires
- Label
- The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America, Timothy Egan
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-305) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- A fire at the end of the world -- In on the creation. "A peculiar intimacy" ; Roost of the robber barons ; The Great Crusade ; Deadwood days ; Showdown -- What they lost. Summer of smoke ; Men, men, men! ; Spaghetti Westerners ; Firestorm's eve ; Blowup ; The lost day ; The lost night ; Towns afire ; To save a town ; The missing ; The living and the dead -- What they saved. Fallout ; One for the boys ; Ashes
- Control code
- ocn313658042
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- x, 324 pages, [8] pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780618968411
- Lccn
- 2009021881
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- Label
- The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America, Timothy Egan
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-305) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- A fire at the end of the world -- In on the creation. "A peculiar intimacy" ; Roost of the robber barons ; The Great Crusade ; Deadwood days ; Showdown -- What they lost. Summer of smoke ; Men, men, men! ; Spaghetti Westerners ; Firestorm's eve ; Blowup ; The lost day ; The lost night ; Towns afire ; To save a town ; The missing ; The living and the dead -- What they saved. Fallout ; One for the boys ; Ashes
- Control code
- ocn313658042
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- x, 324 pages, [8] pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780618968411
- Lccn
- 2009021881
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
Subject
- 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
- Conservationists -- United States -- Biography
- Presidents -- United States -- Biography
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
- United States, National Park Service -- History
- Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946
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