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Young Men and Fire: A True Story of the Mann Gulch Fire by Norman MacLean - undifferentiated, Norman Maclean, Norman Maclean, MacLean, Norman Maclean, Irb Media is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States 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 these men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts back together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy. Young Men and Fire won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992. "A magnificent drama of

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Author
Norman MacLean - undifferentiated, Norman Maclean, Norman Maclean, MacLean, Norman Maclean, Irb Media
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Published
1992
Language
EN
ISBN
9780226501031
Category
history
Subjects
Memoir, Agriculture, Historical Fiction
Rating
4.08 / 5 (3,628 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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