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Mann Gulch, Helena National Forest

Mann Gulch is a gulch in the Gates of the Mountains Wilderness of the upper Missouri River, 24 miles (39 km) north-northeast of Helena, Montana, in southeastern Lewis and Clark County. It is on the east side of the Missouri River and approximately 9 miles (14 km) east of Interstate 15 (I-15), between Helena and Wolf Creek. Mann Gulch is between Meriwether Canyon immediately to the south and Rescue Gulch immediately to the north, and the creek it contains flows into the Missouri in the canyon known as the Gates of the Mountains. Mann Gulch is approximately 2.4 miles (3.9 km) southeast of Beartooth Mountain.

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The Mann Gulch fire was a wildfire reported on August 5, 1949, in a gulch located along the upper Missouri River in the Gates of the Mountains Wilderness...

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Norman Maclean. It is Maclean's story of his quest to understand the Mann Gulch fire of 1949 and how it led to the deaths of 13 wildland firefighters...

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wildfires. The fire with the greatest toll of smokejumper deaths was the Mann Gulch fire in 1949, which occurred north of Helena, Montana, at the Gates of...

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Holter Lake, near the Gates of the Mountains, lies Mann Gulch. The gulch was the site of the 1949 Mann Gulch fire, which claimed the lives of 13 smokejumpers...

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his novel The Prairie (1827), but it became well-known only after the Mann Gulch fire of August 5, 1949, when (Robert Wagner) "Wag" Dodge came up with...

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which can make fires particularly dangerous. For example, during the 1949 Mann Gulch fire in Montana, United States, thirteen smokejumpers died when they lost...

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Gates of the Mountains Wilderness

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known as the Gates of the Mountains Wild Area) was the site of the 1949 Mann Gulch fire, which claimed the lives of 13 firefighters and which was the subject...

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of a previous disaster. The film was loosely based on the August 1949 Mann Gulch fire, and filmed on location in Technicolor with the cooperation of the...

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smokejumper firefighters and 1 US Forest Service fire guard are killed in the Mann Gulch Fire. 1957 – American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers"...

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book about the 13 smokejumpers who lost their lives fighting the 1949 Mann Gulch Forest Fire. Maclean's letters, some of them gathered in The Norman Maclean...

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Harbor and damaged Acadia National Park. 1949 4,500 acres (1,800 ha) Mann Gulch fire Montana 12 firefighters who parachuted near the fire and 1 forest...

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that had been used to drop 12 smokejumpers who were killed in the 1949 Mann Gulch fire. The museum moved into its 18,500 sq ft (1,720 m2) R. Preston Nash...

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Weick, Karl E. (1993). "The collapse of sensemaking in organizations: the Mann Gulch disaster". Administrative Science Quarterly. 38 (4): 628–652. doi:10.2307/2393339...

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headquarters location for the forest. The forest was the site of the 1949 Mann Gulch fire, which claimed the lives of 13 firefighters and which was the subject...

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