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McKay, 1957. Hardcover. Condition: Used: Very Good. Tight and unmarked, lightly toned, no jacket, covers soiled 1957 David McKay first printing.
Flaming forest. With illustrations by R. Farrington Elwell. by [FOREST SERVICE - MONTANA]. ATWATER, Montgomery M - 1941.
by [FOREST SERVICE - MONTANA]. ATWATER, Montgomery M
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Flaming forest. With illustrations by R. Farrington Elwell.
by [FOREST SERVICE - MONTANA]. ATWATER, Montgomery M
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Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1941. 8vo. vii, [1], 211, [1] pp. Frontisp., illustrated title, plates. Red publisher’s cloth, black lettering, illustrated endpapers (very minor shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art of Forest Service ranger fighting Montana forest fire by Elwell (very minor edgewear, scuffing), NF/VG copy. First edition, stated, of this exceedingly scarce Hank Winton juvenile mystery set in the Northern Rocky Mountains of Montana, showcasing the U.S. Forest Service, Forest fires, and early parachuting smokejumpers. Atwater (1904-1976) born in Baker City, OR, and Harvard grad, worked as a Montana racher and trapper, forest ranger, and was WWII 10th Mountain Division veteran. Later through his work at Wasatch National Forest, he became known as the father of the Snow Avalanche work in the U.S., and this title has become very scarce.
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- Date Published 1941.
- Keywords Mystery, Mysteries, Children’s Literature, Westerns, Western Americana, Rocky Mountains, United States Forest Service, Forest Fires, Firefighting, Smokejumpers, Parachutes, Montana
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