Young Men and Fire:A True Story of the Mann Gulch Fire by Norman Maclean

Young Men and Fire:A True Story of the Mann Gulch Fire

Norman Maclean

316 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history nature adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

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On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, The Smoke Jumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of thes...

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informative 100%
adventurous 75%
emotional 50%
reflective 50%
sad 50%
dark 25%
funny 25%
mysterious 25%

Pace

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medium 25%
fast 25%

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