The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America is about Teddy Roosevelt's attempt to save the beautiful scenery of the West. Roosevelt used his presidency as a springboard to promote his lack of protection for our woods, while in doing so created the Forest Service out of this battle. In this book Timothy Egan explores the Northern Rockies to analyze the worst wildfire in United States history. This disaster is known as the “Big Burn,” the 1910 fire quickly engulfed three million acres of land in Idaho, Montana and Washington, burned frontier towns completely, and left a cloud of smoke so thick it hovered over multiple towns even after the flames had gone out. been extinct. Egan begins this story about the Great Fire of 1910 with the story of how the United States Forest Service came to be. He says it comes from a strange collaboration of two people: Teddy Roosevelt and his forester chief, Gifford Pinchot. Although they were very different, they also shared many things in common. Both were born and raised by wealthy Manhattan families. Just like Roos...