Fire in America

Stephen J. Pyne is a professor in the Biology and Society Program at Arizona State Universty. He is the author of many books, including Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910 and Fire on the Rim: A Firefighter's Season at the Grand Canyon. Fire: A Brief History is the sixth volume in Pyne's Cycle of Fire, which also includes Vestal Fire, World Fire, Burning Bush, The Ice and Fire in America.

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

Nature's Fire

The Fire from Asia

The Fire from Europe

The Great Barbecue

The Heroic Age

A Continental Experiment

The Cold War on Fire

Fields of Fire

Epilogue: The Forbidden Flame

Bibliographic Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliographic Essay

Index