Summary Of Big Burn By Timothy Egan

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In the “Big Burn” by Timothy Egan, the story takes us back to the wildfire of 1910 that consumed more than three million acres in the states of Idaho, Montana, and Washington D.C. This wildfire has changed the forest lifestyle forever. One Morning, in August 21, 1910 the entire town of Wallace had lost a number of cities due to the great blaze. In that event, innumerable political reactions and positioning transformation had been made. Even for Theodore Roosevelt, who was the governor of New York, Vice president of the United States, and became US president after president William McKinley was assassinated in the year of 1901. In the same way, Gifford Pinchot was the first chief of the United States Forest Service and the governor of Pennsylvania.