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)

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
Creator
Subject
Genre
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
  • illustrations
  • maps
  • plates
  • photographs
Index
index present
LC call number
E757
LC item number
.E325 2010eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • 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)
Link
http://calgary.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=2D88E1D7-6353-43FE-9898-5049B927A068
Instantiates
Publication
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)
Link
http://calgary.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=2D88E1D7-6353-43FE-9898-5049B927A068
Publication
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

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