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    The Big Burn (2009) Hardcover Book - (Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America)

    The Big Burn (2009) Hardcover Book - (Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America)

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    Like-New! Please Note: First page has a name written. Cover and rest of pages are clean and crisp new.

    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 that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying towns and timber in the blink of an eye. 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.