"1910 was America's millennial year of fire. That summer, American nature and American society collided with tectonic force as western wildfires scorched millio
From a fire policy of prevention at all costs to today's restored burning, Between Two Fires is America's history channeled through the story of wildland fire m
National Book Award–winner Timothy Egan turns his historian's eye to the largest-ever forest fire in America and offers an epic, cautionary tale for our time.
A provocative rethinking of how humans and fire have evolved together over time—and our responsibility to reorient this relationship before it's too late.
From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape th