Showing The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan
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The Big Burn On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno. Forest rangers assembled nearly ten thousand men to fight the fire. The author narrates the struggles of the rangers. Full description
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