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• Book Notes: ‘Spokane is Reading’ revisits ‘Big Burn’

  October 3, 2010 in Features on Page D7 “Spokane is Reading” descends upon the region this week like a … well, like a firestorm. Timothy Egan’s “The Big Burn,” about the 1910 forest fires in Idaho and Montana, …

• Q-and-A: Timothy Egan

  August 15, 2010 in Idaho, Region on Page A12 Timothy Egan, Spokane-bred winner of a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, tackled the subject of the 1910 fires in his most recent bestseller, “The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt …

• Rail route tunnels saved lives in big fire

  March 21, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 One of the most popular recreation areas in North Idaho is the Route of the Hiawatha, a 15-mile biking and hiking trail on the abandoned roadbed of the Chicago, Milwaukee, …