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The Resource The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America, Timothy Egan, (electronic resource)
The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America, Timothy Egan, (electronic resource)
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The item The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America, Timothy Egan, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America, Timothy Egan, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all 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
- Edition
- 1st Mariner Books ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 324 p., [8] p. 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
- 9780547416861
- 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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- Electronic books
- 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
- TEFOD
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Egan, Timothy
- Dewey number
- 973.911
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- photographs
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E757
- LC item number
- .E325 2010eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Roosevelt, Theodore
- Pinchot, Gifford
- United States
- Presidents
- Conservationists
- Forest conservation
- Nature conservation
- National parks and reserves
- Forest fires
- Forest fires
- Label
- The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America, Timothy Egan, (electronic resource)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-305) and index
- Color
- multicolored
- 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
- ocn772082058
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- 1st Mariner Books ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 324 p., [8] p. of plates)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780547416861
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Other physical details
- ill., map.
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)772082058
- Label
- The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America, Timothy Egan, (electronic resource)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-305) and index
- Color
- multicolored
- 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
- ocn772082058
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- 1st Mariner Books ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 324 p., [8] p. of plates)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780547416861
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Other physical details
- ill., map.
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)772082058
Subject
- Electronic books
- 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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