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On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering memory of wind moved through the drought-stricken nationwide forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes getting rid of over the forest floor into a roaring inferno. Forest rangers acquired assembled practically ten thousand men—college or university boys, day staff, immigrants from mining camps—to fight the hearth. But no living person acquired seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else understood how to subdue them.
Egan narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers up against the implacable hearth with unstoppable remarkable force. Equally remarkable is the larger story he explains to of outsized leader Teddy Roosevelt and his key forester, Gifford Pinchot. Pioneering the idea of conservation, Roosevelt and Pinchot have nothing less than create the idea of open public land as our nationwide treasure, had by and preserved for every resident.
