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Book Synopsis Montana’s Waldron Creek Fire: The 1931 Tragedy and the Forgotten Five by : Dr. Charles Palmer
Download or read book Montana’s Waldron Creek Fire: The 1931 Tragedy and the Forgotten Five written by Dr. Charles Palmer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On August 25, 1931, five men died fighting the devastating Waldron Creek Fire west of Choteau, Montana. Lacking training and preparation, Herbert Novotny, Frank Williamson, Hjalmer G. Gunnarson, Ted Bierchen and Charles Allen dashed into the flames and never stood a chance....National Smokejumper Association chief historian Dr. Charles Palmer shines a light on this important story, finally honoring the heroic sacrifice that led to critical changes in wildland firefighting."--Back cover.
Book Synopsis Montana’s Waldron Creek Fire by : Dr. Charles Palmer
Download or read book Montana’s Waldron Creek Fire written by Dr. Charles Palmer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 25, 1931, five men died fighting the devastating Waldron Creek Fire west of Choteau, Montana. Lacking training and preparation, Herbert Novotny, Frank Williamson, Hjalmer G. Gunnarson, Ted Bierchen and Charles Allen dashed into the flames and never stood a chance. The Teton County coroner added insult to injury, noting that each had "no one to blame but himself." Three men were buried in unmarked graves. Records show that the body of the fifth was returned to his family, but no burial site is known. Only one has a headstone. National Smokejumper Association chief historian Dr. Charles Palmer shines a light on this important story, finally honoring the heroic sacrifice that led to critical changes in wildland firefighting.
Book Synopsis Young Men and Fire by : Norman Maclean
Download or read book Young Men and Fire written by Norman Maclean and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells what happened on August 5, 1949 in Man Gulch, Montana when fifteen smokejumpers came to fight a forest fire.
Book Synopsis Young Men & Fire by : Norman Maclean
Download or read book Young Men & Fire written by Norman Maclean and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 writing, a tragedy that pays tribute to the dead and offers rescue to the living.... Maclean's search for the truth, which becomes an exploration of his own mortality, is more compelling even than his journey into the heart of the fire. His description of the conflagration terrifies, but it is his battle with words, his effort to turn the story of the 13 men into tragedy that makes this book a classic."--from New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, Best Books of 1992 "A treasure: part detective story, part western, part tragedy, part elegy and wholly eloquent ghost story in which the dead and the living join ranks cheerfully, if sometimes eerily, in a search for truth and the rest it brings."--Joseph Coates, Chicago Tribune "An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and firefighting, a powerful, breathtakingly real reconstruction of a tragedy, and a meditation on writing, grief and human character.... Maclean's last book will stir your heart and haunt your memory."--Timothy Foote, USA Today "Beautiful.... A dark American idyll of which the language can be proud."--Robert M. Adams, The New York Review of Books "Young Men and Fire is redolent of Melville. Just as the reader of Moby Dick comes to comprehend the monstrous entirety of the great white whale, so the reader of Young Men and Fire goes into the heart of the great red fire and comes out thoroughly informed. Don't hesitate to take the plunge."--Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post Book World "Young Men and Fire is a somber and poetic retelling of a tragic event. It is the pinnacle of smokejumping literature and a classic work of 20th-century nonfiction."--John Holkeboer, The Wall Street Journal "Maclean is always with the brave young dead. . . . They could not have found a storyteller with a better claim to represent their honor. . . . A great book."--James R. Kincaid, New York Times Book Review
Download or read book Fire in Montana written by Greg Martin and published by . This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1949 fifteen smokejumpers parachuted into a remote Montana canyon called Mann Gulch. It started as a very small fire in rugged country but within two hours after landing, thirteen of these young men were caught in a raging inferno and were killed. They died bravely, together with their friends, and in the service of their country. Everyone was young and attractive, healthy and strong, enthusiastic and in love. They were bursting into the prime of their lives. There were no malcontents here. Everyone did their best but events overtook them. Until now the actual time line has never been connected to the people involved. Fire in Montana connects the lives of young smokejumpers who lived with a joy of life and expectations of shining futures, the forest rangers and volunteers who fought valiantly to rescue them, and their families, lovers, and friends who were forced to wait and pray, then face the devastating and heart wrenching loss.
Book Synopsis Fire on the Mountain by : John N. Maclean
Download or read book Fire on the Mountain written by John N. Maclean and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2009-12-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1994, a wildfire on Colorado's Storm King Mountain was wrongly identified at the outset as occurring in South Canyon. This unintentional, seemingly minor human error was the first in a string of mistakes that would be compounded into one of the greatest tragedies in the annals of firefighting. Before it was done, fourteen courageous firefighters—men and women, hotshots, smoke jumpers, and helicopter crew—would lose their lives battling the deadly so-called South Canyon blaze. John N. Maclean's award-winning national bestseller Fire on the Mountain is a stunning reconstruction of the killer conflagration and its aftermath—a page-turning true adventure of nature at its most unforgiving, and a powerful, indelible portrait of a unique breed of heroes who regularly and without question place their lives on the line.
Download or read book Montana on Fire! written by Michael Moore and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published by Lee Montana newspapers and Montana Magazine."
Book Synopsis A Great Day to Fight Fire by : Mark Matthews
Download or read book A Great Day to Fight Fire written by Mark Matthews and published by Editorial Galaxia. This book was released on 2007 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical study of the 1949 Mann Gulch, Montana, wildfire that claimed the lives of thirteen firefighters draws on the recollections of the three survivors, their families, and colleagues to offer a moment-by-moment re-creation of the disaster and to describe the legacy of the fire in terms of the development of new safety equipment and training programs for firefighters.
Download or read book Barbed Wire written by Joanne S. Liu and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How could an ordinary fence shape a nation's history? Before the 1870s, much of the American West was an uninterrupted expanse of plains, where native tribes followed buffalo herds for hundreds of miles and cowboys ran cattle wherever water and grass led them. After the Homestead Act of 1862, settlers pouring into the West to stake their claims found that farming was not easy in cattle country, where the Law of the Open Range dictated that the needs of the herds-and their owners-came first. Then, seemingly overnight, everything changed. The invention and mass production of barbed wire made it possible for homesteaders to fence off millions of acres, creating a violent clash of cultures. In this engaging history, the struggles of cattlemen, farmers, Indians, inventors, and outlaws are brought to life for history buffs and curious readers alike. Enhanced by historic photos, maps, and a handy chronology, Barbed Wire: The Fence That Changed the West reveals the fascinating account of how a simple twist of wire transformed a country's landscape and ushered in a new way of life.
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Book Synopsis Indians at Work by : United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs
Download or read book Indians at Work written by United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Montana ... by : Montana. Supreme Court
Download or read book Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Montana ... written by Montana. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Montana through Wyoming and other areas by : United States. Navy Department. Office of Information
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Download or read book Bibliography and Index of Montana Geology written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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