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Two-Man Stick is a dramatic story of smokejumping in the 1950's told by one who was there. Bud Filler brings back those exciting early days of aerial fire suppression, and tells what it's like to step out of an airplane with a backpack filled with flimsy silk, and nothing below but a hillside of rocks and a raging wildfire.
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Bud Filler earned degrees in forestry from Pennsylvania State University and the University of British Columbia, then served as an officer in the U.S. Army 9th Infantry Division. He returned to Idaho to cut logs along the Clearwater River, and now is the co-owner of Filler-King Company, a manufacturer of structural wood products, and Jump Creek Lumber Company. He and his wife, Ellie, live in Boise, Idaho.
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"Bud Filler is a fine writer, and he tells the smokejumper story as it was and still is: the most adventurous job in America. This is a superb book." -- Clay Morgan, former smokejumper and author of Santiago and the Drinking Party
"Two-Man Stick is a well-written page-turner on a fascinating subject. Bud Filler has made the business of smokejumping come alive with real people, colorful and sensitive descriptions and a trained woodsman's knowledge of the complex operation of a forest ecosystem. What comes through most clearly is Bud's enormous and unmistakable love for our national heritage of public lands and for those who risk their lives to protect them." -- Cecil D. Andrus,former governor of Idaho
"Two-Man Stick is about the go-to-hell years of being a smokejumper in the fifties. This book goes beyond exciting--it's a great tribute to the McCall jumpers." -- Tom Kovalicky, Nez Perce Forest Supervisor, retired.
"Two-Man Stick is a well-written page-turner on a fascinating subject. Bud Filler has made the business of smokejumping come alive with real people, colorful and sensitive descriptions and a trained woodsman's knowledge of the complex operation of a forest ecosystem. What comes through most clearly is Bud's enormous and unmistakable love for our national heritage of public lands and for those who risk their lives to protect them." -- Cecil D. Andrus,former governor of Idaho
"Two-Man Stick is about the go-to-hell years of being a smokejumper in the fifties. This book goes beyond exciting--it's a great tribute to the McCall jumpers." -- Tom Kovalicky, Nez Perce Forest Supervisor, retired.
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- PublisherBurning Mountain Press
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 189105502X
- ISBN 13 9781891055027
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages190
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. First Edition, First Printing. Author signed. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Gilt embrossed steel grey linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/faint creasing to lower front corner, rubs to corner tips, and short closed tears to upper spine edges. Map to endpapers. LAID IN: Publication promotion materials. STICK: Any number of parachutis dropping together (Webster's Dictionary. Smokejumpers parachute to remote areas to combat fires. Initiated in the 1930s, American smokejumpers are a part of US Forest Services; other countries with smokejumpers are Russia and Canada. This memoir recalls first hand experiences of the 1950s. A unique book that ought to be read in conjunction with Norman Maclean's classic, Young Men and Fire, which takes a close look at Montana's Mann Gulch fire of August, 1949 which took the lives of of 12 of a team of elite ariborne firefighters within two hours of parachuting. Seller Inventory # 006838
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