Young Men and Fire
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Format: Book
Edition: Twenty-fifth anniversary edition.
Description: xx, 333 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
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.--Amazon.
Contents:
Black ghost -- Young men and fire.
Subjects:
Dodge, Wag, -1955.
United States. Forest Service -- Officials and employees.
Forest fires -- Montana -- Mann Gulch -- Prevention and control.
Smokejumpers -- United States.
Dodge, Wag, -1955.
United States. Forest Service -- Officials and employees.
Forest fires -- Montana -- Mann Gulch -- Prevention and control.
Smokejumpers -- United States.
ISBN:
9780226475455
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Maclean | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |