Year of the fires: the story of the great fires of 1910

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Describes the disastrous 1910 season, as wildfires swept across the Pacific Northwest, claiming lives, towns, and mining camps, and illustrates how American bureaucracies, politics, developments, and ideas collide with nature.

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