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

Title: Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910 Author: Stephen J Pyne ISBN: 9780670899906 Publisher: Viking Adult Published: 2001 Binding: Book Language: English Publisher Description: As wildfires blazed throughout the western United States in the summer of 2000, news organizations from across the country sought the insights of fire expert Stephen J. Pyne. Among the things he told them about were the many parallels between the fires of 2000 and the Great Fires that raged nearly a century ago. Here Pyne tells the whole story of the catastrophic fires of 1910 and the indelible legacy they left behind. The Great Fires scorched millions of acres across Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana; they destroyed mining camps and whole towns; their smoke darkened skies in New England; their soot fell on the ice of Greenland. Unlike fires before them, they received a massive and innovative response from the fledgling U.S. For