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Human frailty was the cause of the devastating Colorado forest fires, according to your report [NATION, July 1]. How utterly pathetic! U.S. Forest Service employee Terry Lynn Barton caused a horrific tragedy that displaced more than 8,000 people, destroyed thousands of acres and took the lives of fire fighters. But your story sympathetically portrayed Barton as the survivor of a terrible life. What in the heck does a sexual-harassment case not settled to her satisfaction and her husband's lack of ambition have to do with causing a catastrophic wildfire? MARK INNES Livermore, Calif...
...inseparable. Pull them apart, and it makes the whole thing meaningless. "[The expedition] has that mixed quality of great news for one people and bad news for another group of people," says Patricia Limerick, who chairs the board of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado in Boulder. "It is not the greatest news," she says, "to have a party of agents of empire come through...
...copies. It sold poorly. Two years later, Clark still had not received his own copy. By that time the nation was beginning to forget about Lewis and Clark. Well-publicized explorations led by John Charles Fremont through the Rockies to California and John Wesley Powell down the Colorado River eventually eclipsed the Voyage of Discovery in the public's imaginings of the West. Yet publishing would revive their reputations. New editions of the journals were published in 1893 and 1904-05, bringing the saga to life a century after it happened...
...Adrenaline-charged narratives like Junger's tale of smoke jumpers in Colorado's South Canyon wildfire in 1994 should snare readers--until the fire season ends...
...what really hurt was the suspicion that some of the fires they were fighting were set by their own people. Just three weeks after the discovery that Colorado's vast Hayman fire was started by Forest Service worker Terry Barton, officials announced that they suspected the so-called Rodeo blaze in Arizona had been set by part-time firefighter Leonard Gregg so that he would get paid to help...