The Mann Gulch Fire

Dick Gordon spoke with Bob Sallee about surviving the 1949 Mann Gulch fire. Top: Bob and fellow survivor Walter Rumsey (photo: Peter Stackpole, LIFE, 1949 Time Warner Inc.) Middle: Mann Gulch (courtesy USDA Forest Service) Bottom: William Hellman's cross, Rescue Gulch (photo: Philip G. Schlamp, 1969, courtesy USDA Forest Service) All photos appear in "Young Men and Fire," Norman Maclean, University of Chicago Press, 1962.