Pend Oreille County Reads: Tim Egan

The Pend Oreille County Library District is thrilled to announce the 4th annual Pend Oreille County Reads book selection and author visit. This year, we'll welcome author Tim Egan and his book "The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America."

Multiple copies of the book are available at all library locations and as eBooks or audiobooks on Libby and Hoopla, the Library's free reading apps.

About the Book

On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forest of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men—college boys, day workers, immigrants from mining camps—to fight the fire. But no living person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them.

Timothy Egan narrates the struggles of the overmatched ranges against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force. Equally dramatic is the larger story he tells of outsize president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester, Gifford Pinchot. Pioneering the notion of conservation, Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of public land as our national treasure, owned by and preserved for every citizen.

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• This month, 17th June, 01:00 am, Pend Oreille County Reads: Tim Egan in Newport

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