The Big Burn by Timothy Egan
Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
A gripping narrative of the 1910 Pacific Northwest inferno that burned millions of acres, blending vivid first‑person stories of firefighters and settlers with broader history of logging, railroads, drought and lightning to show how the catastrophe devastated communities, claimed lives, and propelled the expansion of federal forest management and modern wildfire policy.
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- 2009
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- English
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