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Lädt ... The big burn : the Northwest's forest fire of 1910 (1978. Auflage)von Stan Cohen, Donald C. Miller (Joint Author.)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This is an easily readable book about the wild land fires of 1910 in MT & ID that burned 3 million acres. It contains many period pictures and some lines of text describing individual experiences. Some letters are also copied, leaving a first person experience. It is not the Egan authored book of the same name, but with no pictures, as it does not talk much about the politics. The chapters are about the fire, the towns that burned and the fire's legacy in the 70 plus fire fighters who gave their lives. It's impact is described in mostly local terms. I found the autographed book at the Missoula smoke jumper museum. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
A good case could be made for predicting a calamitous forest fire that would ravage the relatively unscathed, lush timber stands of the Northwest. Some people shrugged and lamented that one could never predict much of the future. But regardless of what people thought, 1910 was to be the year of what some termed the "big blowup" of the "big burn," or the "time when the mountains roared." A series of 1,736 fires ravaged three million acres and killed eighty-five people. With abnormally low amounts of precipitation and soaring high temperatures, disaster threatened imminently, and the undermanned, underequipped national forest service did not help the situation. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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