Title: Smokejumper
Description: A fictional account, based on the author's actual experiences over 11 summers in the wilderness of Idaho, of a group of college students in the 1960's who undergo training as smokejumpers and are then called upon to fight forest fires in the Idaho wilderness.  From the author's foreword:

"The events related in this book are based on my experiences as a smokejumper.  The historical, geographical and technical information presented here is accurate; however, the characters are fictitious.  I have also changed the locations and time sequence to make them suitable to the story."
Places: McCall, Idaho; Payette National Forest, Hell's Canyon
Time periods: 1960's