pickI lived out west for 22 years and never heard about the 1910 fires. But I watched year after year as Yellowstone evolved after the fires of 1988. Egan brings it to life along with its heroic and cowardly moments. The subtitle is a bit misleading as it is Gifford Pinchot more than Teddy who is the policy focus. But the real interest for me lay not in the DC politics, but in the efforts of underfunded unappreciated forest rangers.
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Found inside my 2nd hand copy “To Dad from SSCR” Four kids? A family nickname? I‘m intrigued.
pickThe first of a three part biography by Edmund Morris. This highlights Theodore Roosevelt‘s life up to the presidency. This isn‘t the first time I‘ve read this. This book introduced me as a 19 year old to arguably the most interesting American who ever lived. Certainly the American who lived the fullest life.
pickI love TR but he would have annoyed the crap out of me. Loved learning about the women in his life
As someone who worked in this town for 3 1/2 summers in college, I forgot about the murder trial. The Marquis de Morés was an interesting character. Look up how he died.
I thought it was teatotaling. Like drink tea instead. 🤷🏼♀️
pickThe history of the National Forest Service and the men who helped form it along with a horrific forest fire that happened in Idaho at the time. This was a really good book in face of what‘s happening now. (Pictured is a note written in a historic school house in Smoky Mountain National Park.)
