A review by ratmanrat
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan

5.0

Dramatic, good, and sooo informative about the start of public land, Gifford Pinchot, Roosevelt, and the battle for the forest service, the burn that swept through , and some of the fall out after. Amazing to learn the real Pulaski story, real stories of the firefighters drafted in for th emergency, and their fates good and bad (mostly bad!).
Important history of the US and how so much of the landscape could have been different without public land…… and how it still struggles in danger of overuse today.
Recommend! Good fast read too.