The Big Burn

Based on the events surrounding one of the biggest fires of the twentieth century, The Big Burn is a portrait of a time and a place and an event that altered the face of Montana and Idaho, changed the way we fight wildfires, and dramatically transformed the people on the front lines forever. Readers of this novel might also want to read the more documentary account in Timothy Egan's The Big Burn The classic novel based on a real fire is that by George R. Stewart -- Fire