Showing the kind of true grit and rugged individualism for which Westerners are legendary, citizens of the small Arizona town of Clay Springs, stood, fought and survived one of the worst wildfires in the state's history in June. But in doing so, they had to break the law -- their heroism came in defiance both of federal orders to retreat and of firefighting tactics that some in Arizona have called too timid.Events in Clay Springs don't suggest that federal officials necessarily were wrong in abandoning the town, or that the town's citizen's were justified in breaking the law by bulldozing...