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The big burn Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America
Unbridged edition | Brillance Audio, Grand Haven, Michigan : p2009.

  • 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative (Show)
  • 1 of 1 Copy Available at Fort Erie Library System
  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Crystal Ridge CD 973.911 EGA Audiobooks - Non-fiction Copy hold / Volume hold Available
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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.
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  • ISBN: 9781441806949 (s.r.)
  • Physical Description: sound recordingsound disc9 audio discs (approximately 10 hrs. 5 min.) : digital ;
  • Edition: Unbridged edition
  • Publisher: Grand Haven, Michigan : Brillance Audio, p2009.
  • Formatted Contents Note: 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.
  • Participant or Performer Note: Read by Robertson Dean.

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