Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)

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CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FOREWORD BY WILLIAM CRONON
PREFACE TO THE 1997 PAPERBACK EDITION
PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION: HISTORY WITH FIRE IN ITS EYE
ABBREVIATIONS
PROLOGUE: THE SMOKE OF TIME
1: NATURE'S FIRE
	Electrical Fire: A Natural History of Lightning Fire
	The Fire Environment: Principles of Fire Behavior
	Fire and Life: Principles of Fire Ecology
	The Burned-Over Districts: A Fire History of the Northeast
2: THE FIRE FROM ASIA
	Our Grandfather Fire: Fire and the American Indian
	These Conflagrated Prairies: A Fire History of the Grasslands
	Paiute Forestry: A History of the Light-Burning Controversy
3: THE FIRE FROM EUROPE
	Prometheus Bound: Fire and Europe
	Our Pappies Burned the Woods: A Fire History of the South
	Fire Wolves and Smokey Bears: A History of Fire Prevention
4: THE GREAT BARBECUE
	The Dragon Devastation: Fire and the Counterreclamation
	Sky of Brass, Earth of Ash: A Fire History of the Lake States
	From Fire and Axe: Private and Early Government Fire Protection
5: THE HEROIC AGE
	1910: A Fire History of the Northern Rockies
	The Forester's Policy: A History of Fire Policy in the U.S. Forest Service
	A Moral and Legal Charge: A History of Fire Policy in the Department of the Interior and Interagency Organizations
6: A CONTINENTAL EXPERIMENT
	Fire and Water: A Fire History of the Northwest
	Cross Fire: Fire Protection by the States
	Under Fire: A History of Manpower in Fire Control
7: THE COLD WAR ON FIRE
	Firepower: Fire and Warfare
	A Burned-Out Case: A Fire History of Southern California
	The Best Tools: A History of Fire Equipment
	The Red Menace: A History of Rural Fire Defense
8: FIELDS OF FIRE
	The Thermal Pulse: A History of Wildland Fire Research
	Fire and Frost: A Fire History of Alaska
	Fire on the Mountain: A Fire History of the Southwest
EPILOGUE: THE FORBIDDEN FLAME
BIBLIOGRAPHIC ABBREVIATIONS
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY
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