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1) The Big Burn
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Three teenagers battle the flames of the Big Burn of 1910, one of the century's biggest wildfires.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
"1910 was America's millennial year of fire. That summer, American nature and American society collided with tectonic force as western wildfires scorched millions of acres, darkened skies in New England, and deposited soot on the ice of Greenland. Farms, mining camps, and rail towns cracked and burned. A survivor said that the towering flames raged with the sound of a thousand trains rushing over a thousand steel trestles. As one ranger put it, the...
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