Teddy Roosevelt and the Making of the U.S. Forestry Service
The great Timothy Egan, author of the Depression era classic, "The Worst Hard Time", has created another masterpiece. In "The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America", Egan provides a spellbinding account of the largest forest fire in American History and the beginning of the U.S. Forestry Service under TR and the great William Pinchot. A wonderful portrait of life in the West before civilization set in....and a heartrending story too.
Top Recommendation for April
The Big Burn: TR and the Fire that Saved America, by Timothy Egan (2009 - 343 pp)
By 1910, TR had left the Presidency for Europe. A staunch conservationist, he left in his place William Pinchot, founder of the National Forest Service as guardian of the Western Lands of the U.S. The Big Burn forest fire of 1910 was the largest in American history, consuming 3 million acres, destroying 7 towns and killing 75 Forest Rangers. In the aftermath, the U.S. Forest Service was born.