{"product_id":"the-big-burn-teddy-roosevelt-and-the-fire-that-saved-america","title":"The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America","description":"\u003ch3 class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"\u003e\u003cspan id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003eA NYT Bestselling US History Book on Gifford Pinchot and the 1910 Inferno-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Bestseller. A\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Entertainment Weekly,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e and Amazon Best Book of the Year.\u003cbr\u003eA dramatic account of the worst forest fire in American history by the author of the National Book Award–winning \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Worst Hard Time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forest of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men—college boys, day workers, immigrants from mining camps—to fight the fire. But no living person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them.\u003cbr\u003eTimothy Egan narrates the struggles of the overmatched ranges against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force. Equally dramatic is the larger story he tells of outsize president Teddy Roosevelt ad his chief forester, Gifford Pinchot. Pioneering the notion of conservation, Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of public land as our national treasure, owned by and preserved for every citizen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An important cautionary tale for these days that also reads like a classic adventure story.”—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWashington Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePages -352\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePublication year 2010\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram Content Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50549439889627,"sku":"9780547394602","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0254\/5582\/0853\/files\/71xwCbbfpXL._SY466.jpg?v=1790876050","url":"https:\/\/utahmapstore.com\/products\/the-big-burn-teddy-roosevelt-and-the-fire-that-saved-america","provider":"The Natural Resources Map \u0026 Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}