Product details
- Publisher : Cedar Hill Publishing; First edition (May 7, 2007)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 218 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1933324783
- ISBN-13 : 978-1933324784
- Item Weight : 3.05 pounds
$22.93
Hardcover – May 7, 2007
by Jim Paxon (Author), Becky Hayes (Editor), Ken Palmrose (Content) (Editor), Photos (Illustrator)
Hadcover book w/ dustcover that is Smyth sewn and presented as a beautiful 8 1/2″ x 11″ “Coffee Table” book chock full of information on wild fires and almost 300 spectacular photos of fire “up close and personal,” most taken by firefighters on the fireline. The Rodeo Fire was ignited at approximately 4:00 p.m. on June 18, 2007 in tender dry forests by a parttime firefighter hoping to gain short term employment. Two days later, a lost hiker started a signal blaze that became the Chediski Fire. Three days later the two fires burned together and became the largest and most destuctive fire in Arizona’s history. When finally contained, the Rodeo-Chediski Fire had burned 731 square miles (468,000 acres), destroyed 465 homes and six businesses and forced 35,000 people to flee their homes for as long as two weeks. At the peak of the fire, 4500 firefighters and support personnel worked at controlling the blaze. Jim Paxon was the designated National Spokesman for the Southwest Incident Management Team that responded to Show Low, Arizona to battle the blaze. He became a fixture in living rooms and on radio with twice daily briefings and many special reports carried by all the media in the area. This book is a journal of the fire, day by day, through his eyes. In addition there are chapters on the ecology of forests and fires, a chapter on firefighters and their equipment and tactics in fighting fire and a chapter on Incident Management Team organization and operation during a climax incident like a raging wildfire. The photos alone will give a reader an appreciation and greater understanding of wildfire as a major force in nature.
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Paperback – June 2, 1997
by Stephen Ambrose (Author)
From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River to the Rockies, over the mountains, down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, and back. Lewis and his partner, Captain William Clark, made the first map of the trans-Mississippi West, provided invaluable scientific data on the flora and fauna of the Louisiana Purchase territory, and established the American claim to Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Ambrose has pieced together previously unknown information about weather, terrain, and medical knowledge at the time to provide a vivid backdrop for the expedition. Lewis is supported by a rich variety of colorful characters, first of all Jefferson himself, whose interest in exploring and acquiring the American West went back thirty years. Next comes Clark, a rugged frontiersman whose love for Lewis matched Jefferson’s. There are numerous Indian chiefs, and Sacagawea, the Indian girl who accompanied the expedition, along with the French-Indian hunter Drouillard, the great naturalists of Philadelphia, the French and Spanish fur traders of St. Louis, John Quincy Adams, and many more leading political, scientific, and military figures of the turn of the century. High adventure, high politics, suspense, drama, and diplomacy combine with high romance and personal tragedy to make this outstanding work of scholarship as readable as a novel.
Hardcover – October 20, 2011
by Julie Courtwright (Author)
Prairie fires have always been a spectacular and dangerous part of the Great Plains. Nineteenth-century settlers sometimes lost their lives to uncontrolled blazes, and today ranchers such as those in the Flint Hills of Kansas manage the grasslands through controlled burning. Even small fires, overlooked by history, changed lives—destroyed someone's property, threatened someone's safety, or simply made someone's breath catch because of their astounding beauty. Julie Courtwright, who was born and raised in the tallgrass prairie of Butler County, Kansas, knows prairie fires well. In this first comprehensive environmental history of her subject, Courtwright vividly recounts how fire—setting it, fighting it, watching it, fearing it—has bound Plains people to each other and to the prairies themselves for centuries. She traces the history of both natural and intentional fires from Native American practices to the current use of controlled burns as an effective land management tool, along the way sharing the personal accounts of people whose lives have been touched by fire. The book ranges from Texas to the Dakotas and from the 1500s to modern times. It tells how Native Americans learned how to replicate the effects of natural lightning fires, thus maintaining the prairie ecosystem. Native peoples fired the prairie to aid in the hunt, and also as a weapon in war. White settlers learned from them that burns renewed the grasslands for grazing; but as more towns developed, settlers began to suppress fires-now viewed as a threat to their property and safety. Fire suppression had as dramatic an environmental impact as fire application. Suppression allowed the growth of water-wasting trees and caused a thick growth of old grass to build up over time, creating a dangerous environment for accidental fires. Courtwright calls on a wide range of sources: diary entries and oral histories from survivors, colorful newspaper accounts, military weather records, and artifacts of popular culture from Gene Autry stories to country song lyrics to Little House on the Prairie. Through this multiplicity of voices, she shows us how prairie fires have always been a significant part of the Great Plains experience-and how each fire that burned across the prairies over hundreds of years is part of someone's life story. By unfolding these personal narratives while looking at the bigger environmental picture, Courtwright blends poetic prose with careful scholarship to fashion a thoughtful paean to prairie fire. It will enlighten environmental and Western historians and renew a sense of wonder in the people of the Plains.
1829-1922 Hardcover – January 1, 1928
by Christopher C. Andrews (Author)
Paperback – January 1, 2003
by Mavis Amundson (Author)
In 1951 a huge forest fire swept across the Olympic Peninsula, headed for the timber town of Forks. But the town fought back. This book is a true story of determination and courage against the backdrop of the rugged Olympic forest.
Library Binding – January 1, 2005
by Jacqueline A Ball (Author)
With walls of fire scorching the landscape, wildfires are fearsome and unstoppable natural disasters. In Wildfire! The 1871 Peshtigo Firestorm, young readers will experience the most destructive wildfire in U.S. history through the compelling story of Mary and Samuel Drew, who survived the advancing firestorm as their friends and neighbors perished. Readers will discover the causes of wildfires, and learn advances in preventing and fighting wildfires since the firestorm of 1871. Gripping four-color photos, maps, and diagrams of wildfires will capture students' attention.
Hardcover – January 1, 2006
by Paul Collins (Author)
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