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Tall trees, tough men / by Pike, Robert E.(Robert Everding)(CARDINAL)176966;
Bibliographical references included in "Foreword" (page 11)The axe -- The terrain and the trees -- The genesis of the lumberjack -- Who were the lumberjacks? -- The timber-cruiser and woods surveyor -- The camp boss -- The logging camp and the diversions of its denizens -- Choppers, sawyers, cant-dog men, and filers -- The scaler -- The teamster and the teams -- The versatile blacksmith -- What's cooking? -- The camp clerk -- Lumberjack ballads -- Logging railroads -- The steam log-hauler -- The sawmill -- Forest fires -- The riverman -- Dam it all! -- River-driving in Vermont -- River-driving in Maine -- River-driving in New Hampshire -- Sketch of a "lumber king" -- Pulpwood and paper."An anecdotal and pictorial history of logging and log-driving in New England"--Dust jacket.
Subjects: Lumbermen;
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The lumberjack frontier; the life of a logger in the early days on the Chippeway. / by Blanchard, Louie,1872-1959.; Wyman, Walker D.(Walker Demarquis),1907-1999.(CARDINAL)146046; Prentice, Lee.;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Blanchard, Louie, 1872-1959.; Lumbermen;
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Slow heat in heaven / by Brown, Sandra,1948-author.(CARDINAL)341432;
The adopted daughter of the most powerful man in town, Schyler Crandall left Heaven, Louisiana, a broken-hearted girl. Now a crisis has brought her home to a family in conflict, a logging empire on the brink of disaster, and seething secrets that make Heaven hotter than hell. Still there are her beautiful younger sister, Tricia, with her cruel lies. . .Ken, Tricia's handsome husband, who married the wrong sister. . .Jigger, the pimp and ruffian with plans of his own. . .and Cash, proud, mysterious, and complex. It is dangerous for Schyler to even be near him, yet she must dare to confront the past -- if there is to be any peace in Heaven.
Subjects: Fiction.; Romance fiction.; Families; Lumbermen;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 4
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Shantymen and shantyboys; songs of the sailor and lumberman. by Doerflinger, William Main.(CARDINAL)217380;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-371).
Subjects: Sea shanties.; Notated music.; Songs.; Music.; Scores.; Lumbermen; Ballads, English;
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The loggers / by Time-Life Books.(CARDINAL)137698; Williams, Richard L.(Richard Lippincott)(CARDINAL)219258;
Bibliography: pages 236-237.
Subjects: Lumber trade; Lumbermen;
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Gentlemen of the woods : manhood, myth, and the American lumberjack / by Brown, Willa Hammitt,1985-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Part I. In the woods. Bull cooks and walking bosses : camp life in a booming industry -- "His flesh hung in tatters and strings" : the violence of nature -- On greenhorns and white men : skill and the boundaries of race -- Part II. In town. That restless,roving spirit : itinerancy and resistance -- "Such people may invade the city" : tramp scares and skid rows -- Five hundred drunks in the street : snake rooms, sprees, and saloons -- Part III. In memory. The only American hero : reinventing the lumberjack -- Papering over a wasteland : creating a corporate myth -- The passing of the pines : buying and selling legends."The folk hero Paul Bunyan stands astride the story of the upper Midwest-a manly symbol of the labor that cleared the vast north woods for the march of industrialization while somehow also maintaining an aura of pristine nature. This conception receives along overdue and thoroughly revealing correction in Gentlemen of the Woods, a cultural history of the life and lore of the real lumberjack and his true place in American history"--
Subjects: Loggers; Logging; Lumbermen; Lumbermen in literature.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Shantymen and shantyboys : songs of the sailor and lumberman / by Doerflinger, William Main.(CARDINAL)217380;
Subjects: Music.; Songs.; Ballads, English; Lumbermen; Sea songs.;
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Green gold : the story of the Hassinger Lumber Company of Konnarock, Virginia / by McGuinn, Doug.(CARDINAL)265551;
"In 1904 when the Hassinger brothers --Luther (L.C.), Will, and John-- came from the northwestern Pennsylvania county of Forest to the southwestern Virginia county of Washington with the idea of continuing their father's lumber business, they liked what they saw: thousands of acres of virgin forest. Two years later, they built a sawmill in Washington County and a company town to support its workers."--Page [4] of cover.Includes bibliographical references (page 4).
Subjects: Hassinger Lumber Company; Lumbermen; Lumber trade;
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Sound wormy : memoirs of a person of no importance / by Gennett, Andrew.(CARDINAL)661890;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Gennett, Andrew.; Lumbermen; Lumber trade;
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Sound wormy : memoir of Andrew Gennett, Lumberman / by Gennett, Andrew.(CARDINAL)661890; Hayler, Nicole.(CARDINAL)661889;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Gennett, Andrew.; Lumbermen; Lumber trade;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 11
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