It was especially dangerous because it formed in a dry, deep valley (known as a “gulch”). The fire had been going on since August 5th. The work begins on Augwhen McLean, then 47, saw the raging fires in the Helena National Forest. Maclean’s publisher wrote that the work combined all of the identities Maclean had engendered throughout his life, including teacher, woodsman, firefighter, and scholar. Its themes include compassion, mortality, human suffering, understanding tragedy, the search for truth, and self-identification. The story of the 13 deaths haunted him for more than 40 years, and he spent 14 years actively researching and writing this book. Technically unfinished, editors at his publishing house completed fact-checking and some stylistic edits they thought were in line with his vision Maclean was too ill to finish the book after 1987. It was published two years after Maclean’s death and received the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award. Young Men and Fire (1992) by American author and University of Chicago professor Norman Maclean is a heavily researched look into the true story of 13 men who died in a wilderness fire in Montana.
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