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Maclean, Norman, 1902-1990.
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Dodge, Wag, -1955.
United States. Forest Service -- Officials and employees.
Forest fires -- Montana -- Mann Gulch -- Prevention and control.
Smokejumpers -- United States.
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Maclean, Norman, 1902-1990.
Dodge, Wag, -1955.
United States. Forest Service -- Officials and employees.
Forest fires -- Montana -- Mann Gulch -- Prevention and control.
Smokejumpers -- United States.
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Young men and fire / Norman Maclean ; with a new foreword by Timothy Egan.
by
Maclean, Norman, 1902-1990.
The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Call #:
363.379 M163y
Subjects
Dodge, Wag, -1955.
United States.
Forest
Service
--
Officials and employees.
Forest
fires
--
Montana
--
Mann
Gulch
--
Prevention
and
control
.
Smokejumpers
--
United States.
ISBN:
9780226475455 (hc)
9780226450353 (trade pbk)
Edition:
Twenty-fifth anniversary ed.
Description:
xx, 333 p., 16 unnumbered p. of plates : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in 1992.
Summary:
"A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US
Forest
Service’s elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote
forest
fire in the
Montana
wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of the men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts together the scattered pieces of the
Mann
Gulch
tragedy in Young Men and Fire, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Alongside Maclean’s now-canonical A River Runs through It and Other Stories, Young Men and Fire is recognized today as a classic of the American West. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Maclean’s later triumph
--
the last book he would write
--
includes a powerful new foreword by Timothy Egan, author of The Big Burn and The Worst Hard Time. As moving and profound as when it was first published, Young Men and Fire honors the literary legacy of a man who gave voice to an essential corner of the American soul."--Container.
Other authors:
Egan, Timothy.
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Sackville Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
363.379 M163y
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