The 100th Anniversary of the Big Burn – the wildfire of 1910 that wiped out areas in Idaho, Washington state, and Montana – and the last wildfire allowed to burn itself out –  is August 20th.

Read about it in the AP article written by Nicholas Geranios

http://www.keprtv.com/news/local/100693989.html

OR

Read The Big Burn by Timothy Egan

reviewed here at the NCBookbunch site … type in The Big Burn under Search or use this link:

http://ncbookbunch.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/the-big-burn-by-timothy-egan/

Anniversaries are good reminders to revisit history…