Fire in America : a cultural history of wildland and rural fire / Stephen J. Pyne ; with a foreword by William Cronon ; and a new preface by the author.

Originally published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1982.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 618-626) and index.

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Prologue: The Smoke of Time 3 -- 1 Nature's Fire 6 -- Electrical Fire: A Natural History of Lightning Fire 8 -- The Fire Environment: Principles of Fire Behavior 20 -- Fire and Life: Principles of Fire Ecology 34 -- The Burned-Over Districts: A Fire History of the Northeast 45 -- 2 The Fire from Asia 66 -- Our Grandfather Fire: Fire and the American Indian 71 -- These Conflagrated Prairies: A Fire History of the Grasslands 84 -- Paiute Forestry: A History of the Light-Burning Controversy 100 -- 3 The Fire from Europe 123 -- Prometheus Bound: Fire and Europe 126 -- Our Pappies Burned the Woods: A Fire History of the South 143 -- Fire Wolves and Smokey Bears: A History of Fire Prevention 161 -- 4 The Great Barbecue 181 -- The Dragon Devastation: Fire and the Counterreclamation 184 -- Sky of Brass, Earth of Ash: A Fire History of the Lake States 199 -- From Fire and Axe: Private and Early Government Fire Protection 219 -- 5 The Heroic Age 239 -- 1910: A Fire History of the Northern Rockies 242 -- The Forester's Policy: A History of Fire Policy in the U.S. Forest Service 260 -- A Moral and Legal Charge: A History of Fire Policy in the Department of the Interior and Interagency Organizations 295 -- 6 A Continental Experiment 322 -- Fire and Water: A Fire History of the Northwest 327 -- Cross Fire: Fire Protection by the States 346 -- Under Fire: A History of Manpower in Fire Control 360 -- 7 The Cold War on Fire 387 -- Firepower: Fire and Warfare 390 -- A Burned-Out Case: A Fire History of Southern California 404 -- The Best Tools: A History of Fire Equipment 424 -- The Red Menace: A History of Rural Fire Defense 450 -- 8 Fields of Fire 462 -- The Thermal Pulse: A History of Wildland Fire Research 467 -- Fire and Frost: A Fire History of Alaska 497 -- Fire on the Mountain: A Fire History of the Southwest 514 -- Epilogue: The Forbidden Flame 530.

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 the landscape.

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