The big burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America

8 books (x, 324 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.)

Contents list

Author biography & List of additional resources

Discussion questions

Sign-up sheet

Book kit policy/How to use the book kit

Forest Service booklet, When the mountains roared: stories of the 1910 fires, c2010.

A fire at the end of the world

In on the creation. "A peculiar intimacy" ; Roost of the robber barons ; The Great Crusade ; Deadwood days ; Showdown

What they lost. Summer of smoke ; Men, men, men! ; Spaghetti Westerners ; Firestorm's eve ; Blowup ; The lost day ; The lost night ; Towns afire ; To save a town ; The missing ; The living and the dead

What they saved. Fallout ; One for the boys ; Ashes.