title: Flames and Courage; Saga of the 1910 Fires
author: Helen; Gubel, Sandra; Griffin, Marjorie (illustrations). Meadows
description: History of the Montana 1910 fires and their legacy.
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  ![Cover](images/weinbaumsother08Dawn_of_Flame.jpg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Dawn of Flame
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Stanley G. Weinbaum
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  In an America where civilization has collapsed, a young man sets out to see
  the world — and to fight the rising power of an empire.
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Dawn of Flame
  
  
  ## by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## One. THE WORLD
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Hull Tarvish looked backward but once, and that only as he reached the elbow
  of the road. The sprawling little stone cottage that had been home was visible
  as he had seen it a thousand times, framed under the cedars. His mother still
  watched him, and two of his younger brothers stood staring down the
  Mountainside at him. He raised his hand in farewell, then dropped it as he
  realized that none of them saw him now; his mother had turned indifferently to
  the door, and the two youngsters had spied a rabbit. He faced about and strode
  away, down the slope out of Ozarky.
  
  
  He passed the place where the gr