![]() ![]() Forest Service and turning the conservation movement into a nationwide cause.Įgan, who is probably most familiar to readers as the author of The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (2006), employs many of the same literary techniques in The Big Burn that he did so effectively in that previous, National Book Award-winning work. Yet Egan argues that it was also responsible for saving the U.S. The “big burn,” as New York Times reporter Timothy Egan calls it in his new book, consumed 3 million acres (an area slightly smaller than Connecticut) in only two days, and killed more than 80 people. ![]() ![]() history steamrollered through the timbered vastness of northeastern Washington, northern Idaho and western Montana. But what would’ve happened had those public reserves - those horizon-gobbling wilderness refuges and national forests - not been saved for us to appreciate? That was a very real possibility back in the summer of 1910, when the largest and most destructive fire in U.S. They’ve always been places to appreciate from afar, or places to escape to and reinvigorate ourselves. ![]() The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved AmericaĪmericans, especially those of us living in the West, take our public lands for granted. ![]()
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