The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America /
Egan, Timothy
The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America / Timothy Egan. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. - x, 324 σ. : εικ., χάρτες ; 24 εκ.
Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφικές παραπομπές (σ. [287]-305) και ευρετήριο.
A fire at the end of the world -- Part I : In on the creation -- 1. "A peculiar intimacy" -- 2. Roost of the robber barons 3. The Great Crusade -- 4. Deadwood days -- 5. Showdown -- Part IΙ : What they lost -- 6. Summer of smoke -- 7.Men, men, men! -- 8. Spaghetti Westerners -- 9. Firestorm's eve -- 10. Blowup -- 11.The lost day 12. The lost night -- 13. Towns afire --14. To save a town -- 15. The missing -- 16.The living and the dead -- Part IΙΙ. What they saved -- 17. Fallout -- 18. One for the boys -- 19. Ashes.
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.
9780618968411
Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919.
Pinchot, Gifford 1865-1946.
Δασική διαχειριστική--Ιστορία.--Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής
Εθνικά πάρκα και δρυμοί--Ιστορία.--Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής
973.911
The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America / Timothy Egan. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. - x, 324 σ. : εικ., χάρτες ; 24 εκ.
Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφικές παραπομπές (σ. [287]-305) και ευρετήριο.
A fire at the end of the world -- Part I : In on the creation -- 1. "A peculiar intimacy" -- 2. Roost of the robber barons 3. The Great Crusade -- 4. Deadwood days -- 5. Showdown -- Part IΙ : What they lost -- 6. Summer of smoke -- 7.Men, men, men! -- 8. Spaghetti Westerners -- 9. Firestorm's eve -- 10. Blowup -- 11.The lost day 12. The lost night -- 13. Towns afire --14. To save a town -- 15. The missing -- 16.The living and the dead -- Part IΙΙ. What they saved -- 17. Fallout -- 18. One for the boys -- 19. Ashes.
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.
9780618968411
Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919.
Pinchot, Gifford 1865-1946.
Δασική διαχειριστική--Ιστορία.--Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής
Εθνικά πάρκα και δρυμοί--Ιστορία.--Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής
973.911
