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unusual facts about Norman Maclean


Colin Campbell and his Highland Band

Colin also worked with many other leading Gaelic singers including Donald Macrae, Calum Kennedy and Norman Maclean.


Helena National Forest

The forest was the site of the 1949 Mann Gulch fire, which claimed the lives of 13 firefighters and which was the subject of both Norman Maclean's book Young Men and Fire and James Keelaghan's folk song "Cold Missouri Waters."

Mann Gulch fire

University of Chicago English professor and author Norman Maclean (1902–1990) researched the fire and its behavior for his book, Young Men and Fire (1992) which was published after his death.

Young Men and Fire

Norman Maclean's son, John Norman Maclean, wrote Fire on the Mountain (1999 book) that told a very similar story about the South Canyon Fire on Storm King Mountain on July 6, 1994 in Colorado, which took the lives of 14 firefighters.


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Doug Worgul

Matthew Quick, author of the critically acclaimed novel Silver Linings Playbook, praised Thin Blue Smoke, saying "As Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It does for Montana fly-fishing, Doug Worgul’s Thin Blue Smoke makes the poetry of Kansas City barbecue accessible to all readers. More than gorgeous prose and fully developed characters — this novel offers us catharsis. Communion has never tasted so good."

MacGill-Eain

Tormod MacGill-Eain, known in English as Norman Maclean, (born 1937).

Mann Gulch fire

Several factors that combined to create the disaster are described in Norman MacLean's book Young Men and Fire.