![]() ![]() Young Men and Fire is the long-awaited result, a story of Montana, of the ways of wildfires, firefighters, and fire scientists, and especially of a crew, young and proud, who "hadn't learned to count the odds and to sense they might owe the universe a. Maclean spent the last fourteen years of his life studying and reliving the fire. Norman Maclean.įirst saw the Mann Gulch fire as it still burned in mid-August 1949, and even then he knew he would one day become a part of its story. ![]() Now a master storyteller finally gives the Mann Gulch fire its due as tragedy. Exactly what happened in Mann Gulch that day has been obscured by years of grief and controversy. ![]() Less than two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or fatally burned. On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen Smokejumpers, the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Broken link? let us search Trove, the Wayback Machine, or Google for you.Ĭhicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992 ![]()
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