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Author : Timothy Egan
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547416865
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Burn written by Timothy Egan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2009-10-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award–winner Timothy Egan turns his historian's eye to the largest-ever forest fire in America and offers an epic, cautionary tale for our time. On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying towns and timber in the blink of an eye. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men to fight the fires, but no living person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them. Egan recreates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force, and the larger story of outsized president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester, Gifford Pinchot, that follows is equally resonant. Pioneering the notion of conservation, Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of public land as our national treasure, owned by every citizen. Even as TR's national forests were smoldering they were saved: The heroism shown by his rangers turned public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service in ways we can still witness today. This e-book includes a sample chapter of SHORT NIGHTS OF THE SHADOW CATCHER.

Author : Jeanette Ingold
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 054774594X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Burn written by Jeanette Ingold and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Teen Fiction from the author of Hitch and Paper Daughter. “A must-read for adrenaline junkies.”—VOYA On a hot summer day in 1910 a teenage soldier assembled his rifle. A girl argued to save trees on a mountain homestead. A young man set out to fight fire. None knew that soon the many blazes burning across northern Idaho would blow up and send a wall of flame racing their way. Portraying a natural disaster that would dictate how the United States would fight wildfire in the 20th century, The Big Burn brings to life a turning point in fire science, forestry, and history. Richly drawn characters doing their best against gigantic odds will grip your heart. The realistic depiction of wildfire will make you feel you were there. With non-fiction Field Notes and an Afterword about firefighting today, it’s a novel that moves from the 1900s into the 21st century. Whether you’re an adult or young adult reader, you’ll come away with a new understanding of nature and a “heighten[ed] appreciation for the courage and sacrifice of firefighters and settlers” (Publishers Weekly). Montana Book Award Honor “Historically accurate and dramatically engaging.”—Teen Reads “Presents a vivid picture of a natural disaster while skillfully conveying in fluid prose the individual stories of the three young people.”—Horn Book “Fascinating and harrowing . . . for any kid whose tastes run to disaster and survival, mixed into a coming of age story.”—Richie’s Picks “A solid adventure story with a well-realized setting.”—Booklist

Author : Don Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Burn written by Don Miller and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald C. Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Burn written by Donald C. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mike McCormick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733714686
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Burn written by Mike McCormick and published by . This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Big Burn is a tale of life, death, love, and redemption amidst a booming business of burning up dead people Viking-style!The business of death is booming at Big Burn Funeral Services where Viking-style cremations draw grieving families to a Virginia Christmas tree farm for raucous and unorthodox final goodbyes. But amidst their workaday duties to provide guests with a memorable final send-off, Big Burn employees Ray and Big Tom Wells, Kim and Ken Keeney celebrate life in all its redemptive glory. Readers are lining up for this emotional, and uplifting story of sex and death, sex and religion, sex and marriage, sex and power, sex and business - which also includes a friendship, family, and faith chaser.

Author : Ailynn Collins
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1666390801
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Can You Survive the 1910 Big Burn? written by Ailynn Collins and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2023 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the northwestern United States, the summer of 1910 was the driest anyone had seen in a long time. The weather was extremely hot and windy. Crops everywhere were drying up. Then in August the region faced one of the biggest forest fires in U.S. history. Will you lead the fight to battle the fires and save your hometown? Can you save others and escape before the town is consumed by flames? Will you flee with your mother to find safety on a train? With dozens of possible choices, YOU will have to decide how to survive one of history's biggest and deadliest forest fires.

Author : Stan Cohen
Publisher : Mountain Press Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780933126046
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Burn written by Stan Cohen and published by Mountain Press Publishing Company. This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A good case could be made for predicting a calamitous forest fire that would ravage the relatively unscathed, lush timber stands of the Northwest. Some people shrugged and lamented that one could never predict much of the future. But regardless of what people thought, 1910 was to be the year of what some termed the "big blowup" of the "big burn," or the "time when the mountains roared." A series of 1,736 fires ravaged three million acres and killed eighty-five people. With abnormally low amounts of precipitation and soaring high temperatures, disaster threatened imminently, and the undermanned, underequipped national forest service did not help the situation.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Timothy Egan's The Big Burn written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-06-13T22:59:00Z with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Gifford Pinchot was a bit odd, but he was self-aware enough to know that he was considered strange. He knew Roosevelt from sportsmen circles in the Empire State, and they came to the governor's mansion in Albany with Christopher Grant La Farge, son of the painter John La Farge, a close friend of Teddy's. #2 The two men talked about the forest protection and the fear of a coming timber famine caused by industrial-age logging. They agreed that Americans had become too shortsighted with the continent they now straddled. #3 Roosevelt and Pinchot agreed to a boxing match. Pinchot was a backup quarterback on the football team at Yale, and he was quick on his feet for a big man. He was a little worried about his six-inch height advantage over T. R. , who stood five feet eight inches. #4 Roosevelt had a very delayed adolescence, as he was always looking out for his best interests. He married the beautiful Alice Hathaway Lee in 1884, and was elected to the New York Assembly the same year. He was Republican minority leader at twenty-five.

Author : Timothy Egan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Burn written by Timothy Egan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeanette Ingold
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780606288743
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Burn written by Jeanette Ingold and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three teenagers battle the flames of the Big Burn of 1910, one of the century's biggest wildfires.