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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
by Timothy Egan
January 1, 2009Houghton Mifflin Harcourt349 pagesNo grades yet
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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.
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