Year of the Fire: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910

by Stephen J Pyne

Overview

In the summer of 1910, wildfires int eh Northern Rockies scorched millions of acres, darkened skies in New England, and deposited soot on the ice in Greenland. The flames ravaged pristine wilderness along with farms, towns, and mining camps, culminating in the deaths of seventy-eight firefighters in the Big Blowup along the Montana-Idaho border. Year of the Fires is the riveting story of that catastrophic year and its pivotal role in establishing how we deal with forest fire in this country.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878425440
Publisher:	Mountain Press Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date:	01/01/2016
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	325
Sales rank:	1,122,112
Product dimensions:	5.92(w) x 8.94(h) x 1.03(d)

About the Author

Stephen Pyne is a professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, an internationally recognized fire historian, and a past member of the North Rim Longshots, a Grand Canyon firefighting crew. Among his other fire books are Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire, World Fire: The Culture of Fire on Earth, and Smokechasing.

John N. Maclean, best known for his book Fire on the Mountain, was a reporter, writer, and editor for the Chicago Tribune for 30 years. Maclean's father, Norman Maclean, wrote the well-loved novella A River Runs Through It, and his son Daniel has written two books on adventure canoe paddling in Alaska. Maclean, a qualified Type 2 firefighter and fire information officer, is a frequent speaker at fire conferences and academies.