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Cargando... Holy Old Mackinaw, A Natural History Of The American Lumberjack (PBK) (1938 original; edición 1945)por Stewart H. Holbrook (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Holy Old Mackinaw is Stewart Holbrook's paean to "the pure logger strain", those hardy men who logged the northern pine forests across the country in the days before steam power and eventually the internal combustion engine mechanized the industry. In his early years, Holbrook worked in logging camps from Maine to the Pacific Northwest, and this book is based on the tales he collected from the last of those old timers. His love of the most extreme characters is obvious, as he bemoans the encroachment of civilization in all its forms. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Holy Old Mackinaw is the rough and lusty story of the American lumberjack at work and at play, from Maine to Oregon. In these modern days timber is harvested by cigarette-smoking married men, whose children go to school in buses, but for nearly three hundred years the logger was a real pioneer who ranged through the forests of many states, steel calks in his boots and ax in his fist, a plug of chew handy, who emerged at intervals into the towns to call on soft ladies and drink hard liquor. Author Stewart Holbrook tells of the flowering of Bangor, the first of the great lumber towns, where a thirsty logger helped himself to unwatered rum with a tin dipper that was chained to an open barrel in the groggery; of the time when a single block of two million acres of virgin Maine timber was sold to one man for twelve and a half cents an acre; of the beginnings of sawdust and the rivalry between Penobscot and Kennebec. He tells of the first migration when white pine became scarce in Maine, and loggers moved on to Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Then came the big jump--the second migration--to the forest of the Pacific Northwest and West Coast, and the era of bull-whacking and skidroads, of the wilder and tougher towns offering pleasant sin to the logger. And finally, the coming of machine logging and highways and the disintegration of the old logger strain. Holbrook captures the life and color of a vanished American scene in this complete history of logging in the Northwest. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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