Lives of the Heroes of the American Revolution (1848)

A conflict over the uses of our forest resources erupts between special-interest groups as they learn about the creation of the U.S. Forest Service. President Theodore Roosevelt realizes he has a crisis in both his cabinet in Washington and in the Cabinet Forest in northwestern Montana. Hand-picked by Roosevelt, Forest Ranger Hank Ward attempts to install some measure of responsible forest management in that huge wilderness (when nobody cares), but every known destructive force in both man and nature is thrust upon him. Forest fires, a villainous railroad tycoon, an unscrupulous consortium of northeastern capitalists, misguided preservationists, disgruntled loggers, and even the Ladiesa Clubaall deluge him with a myriad of the most momentous of challenges. But through wit and wile, and use of his former cavalry fighting experiences, Ranger Ward establishes himself, and the Forest Service, as the veritable authority for managing our forest resources.