Tall Trees Tough Men

Author : Robert E. Pike
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393248607
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tall Trees, Tough Men written by Robert E. Pike and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999-07-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this robust, informal book, Robert E. Pike tells the colorful story of logging and log-driving in New England. The New England loggers and river drivers were a unique breed of men. Working with their axes and peaveys through Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, they contributed mightily to the development of the United States. The daily life of the loggers was hard — working in deep icy water fourteen hours a day, sleeping in wet blankets, eating coarse food, and constantly risking their lives. Their pay was very low, yet they were proud to call themselves loggers. When they came out of the woods after the spring drives, they ebulliently spent their pay carousing in the staid New England towns. Robert E. Pike, who as a youth worked in the woods and on the rivers, writes affectionately and knowingly, with humorous anecdotes, of every detail of lumbering. He describes the daily life of the logging camps, giving a picture of the different specialist jobs: the camp boss, the choppers, the sawyers and filers, the scaler, the teamsters, the river men, the railroaders, and the lumber kings. His descriptions bring the reader vividly into the woods, smelling the tangy, newly cut timber, hearing the boom of the falling trees. "The author's lively prose matches the temper of his subject. . . . This is basic history, geography, psychology, economics, and folklore all rolled into one top-quality volume." — R. S. Monahan, New York Times Book Review

Author : Robert E. Pike
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780393073515
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tall Trees, Tough Men written by Robert E. Pike and published by . This book was released on 1967-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this robust, informal book, Robert E. Pike tells the colorful story of logging and log-driving in New England.

Author : Donald A. Wilson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738505213
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logging and Lumbering in Maine written by Donald A. Wilson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as the Pine Tree State, Maine once led the world in lumber production. It was the first great lumber-producing region, with Bangor at its center. Today, the state has nearly eighteen million acres of timberland, and forest products still make up a major industry. Logging and Lumbering in Maine examines the history from its earliest roots in 1630 to the present, providing a pictorial record of land use and activity in Maine. The state's lumber industry went through several historical periods, beginning with the vast pine and spruce harvests, the organization of major corporate interests, the change from sawlogs to pulpwood, and then to sustained yields, intensive management, and mechanized harvesting. At the beginning, much of the region was inaccessible except by water, so harvesting activities were concentrated on the coast and along the principal rivers. Gradually, as the railroads expanded and roads were constructed into the woods, operations expanded with them and the river systems became vitally important for the transportation of timber out of the woods to the markets downstate. Logging and Lumbering in Maine traces these developments in the industry, taking a close look at the people, places, forests, and machines that made them possible.

Author : Mike Monte
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764315299
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cut and Run written by Mike Monte and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented rape of Mother Nature from the 1880s to the 1940s completely changed the wooded landscape in the northern Great Lakes region of America as well as the society and ecology forevermore. This fascinating book presents true-life photographic images of the lumberjacks and river pigs who began the work, railroad loggers who extended the range and types of logs available, and a close-up look at one town in the wilderness. With hard work written across their faces, these men and women earn the respect of today's readers and became legendary.

Author : Robert E. Pike
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780881504361
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiked Boots written by Robert E. Pike and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the days of log drives on the rivers of New England, whenever a riverman was killed in the drive, his comrades hung his spiked boots on a tree to mark the spot. As a youth, Robert Pike spotted such a pair of bookts, and from that moment was born his lifelong fascination with the history of the New England logging industry.

Author : Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 038553678X
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The People in the Trees written by Hanya Yanagihara and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling anthropological adventure story with a profound and tragic vision of what happens when cultures collide—from the bestselling author of National Book Award–nominated modern classic, A Little Life “Provokes discussions about science, morality and our obsession with youth.” —Chicago Tribune It is 1950 when Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumored lost tribe. There he encounters a strange group of forest dwellers who appear to have attained a form of immortality that preserves the body but not the mind. Perina uncovers their secret and returns with it to America, where he soon finds great success. But his discovery has come at a terrible cost, not only for the islanders, but for Perina himself. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.

Author : James LeMonds
Publisher : Mountain Press Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deadfall written by James LeMonds and published by Mountain Press Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Logging has been a way of life in the Pacific Northwest, a thread woven into the character of communities, for more than a century. And in this far corner, James LeMonds's family has done about every job in the woods-working as high climbers and whistle p

Author : Ralph Warren Andrews
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780517169841
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Timber written by Ralph Warren Andrews and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1968 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Algernon Blackwood
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1609771389
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Whom the Trees Loved written by Algernon Blackwood and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exquisitely wrought and truly imaginative conception.

Author : Guy Johnson
Publisher : Villard
ISBN 13 : 037550656X
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Standing at the Scratch Line written by Guy Johnson and published by Villard. This book was released on 2001-06-12 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised in the steamy bayous of New Orleans in the early 1900s, LeRoi "King" Tremain, caught up in his family's ongoing feud with the rival DuMont family, learns to fight. But when the teenage King mistakenly kills two white deputies during a botched raid on the DuMonts, the Tremains' fear of reprisal forces King to flee Louisiana. King thus embarks on an adventure that first takes him to France, where he fights in World War I as a member of the segregated 369th Battalion—in the bigoted army he finds himself locked in combat with American soldiers as well as with Germans. When he returns to America, he battles the Mob in Jazz Age Harlem, the KKK in Louisiana, and crooked politicians trying to destroy a black township in Oklahoma. King Tremain is driven by two principal forces: He wants to be treated with respect, and he wants to create a family dynasty much like the one he left behind in Louisiana. This is a stunning debut by novelist Guy Johnson that provides a true depiction of the lives of African-Americans in the early decades of the twentieth century.