and Clara Maclean were married in Pembina, Manitoba on August 1, 1893. Biography Early life Norman Maclean was born at Clarinda, Iowa, on December 23, 1902, and was the son of Clara Evelyn (; 1873–1952) and the Rev. John Norman Maclean (1862–1941). Rev. Maclean homeschooled the young Norman and his brother Paul Davidson MacLean (1906–1938) until 1913. Norman Maclean also grew up with five sisters. While Maclean was a child in Clarinda, he often witnessed his father working hard to learn diction and elocution and to rid his pronunciation of all signs that Canadian Gaelic, rather than Canadian English, was his first language. It was also in Clarinda that Rev. Maclean first developed a passion for the American sport of fly fishing, which had not previously been practiced by the minister or his forbears in the Inner Hebrides or in Nova Scotia. Rev. Maclean successfully passed on his love of fly fishing to both of his sons. When asked by an interviewer about having been homeschooled by his father, Maclean recalled, "I think the most important thing is that he read aloud to us. He was a minister, and every morning after breakfast we had what was called family worship. We'd all sit with our breakfast chairs pulled back from the table and he would read to us from the Bible or from some religious poet. He was a very good reader... that was very good for me because in doing that, he would bring out the rhythms of the Bible. That reading instilled in me this great love of rhythm in language." At the invitation of the elders of the Presbyterian church there, the Maclean family relocated to Missoula, Montana in 1909. The following years considerably influenced and inspired Norman's writings, appearing prominently in the short story The Woods, Books, and Truant Officers (1977) and the semi-autobiographical novella A River Runs Through It and Other Stories (1976). Forest Service Maclean was only 14 years old and was too young to enlist in the American Expeditionary Force during World War I, so he instead found work for the United States Forest Service in what is now the Bitterroot National Forest of northwestern Montana. The novella USFS 1919: The Ranger, the Cook, and a Hole in the Sky and the story "Black Ghost" in Young Men and Fire (1992) are semi-fictionalized accounts of these experiences. Dartmouth Maclean later attended Dartmouth College,