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Young Men and Fire
First edition
AuthorNorman Maclean
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectWildfire
GenreNon-fiction, Memoir
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
Publication date
1992
Pages316
ISBN0-226-50062-4
OCLC59946699

Young Men and Fire is a 1992 non-fiction book written by 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, 12 of them members of the USFS Smokejumpers. The fire occurred in Mann Gulch in Montana's Gates of the Mountains Wilderness on August 5. The book was a national bestseller and won the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award for general non-fiction.

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