Timber: Toil and Trouble in the Big Woods

Andrews, Ralph W

ISBN 10: 0887400361 / ISBN 13: 9780887400360

Verlag: Schiffer Publishing, 1997

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers mon0000680169

Inhaltsangabe:

Has anyone today any conception of the grandeur, the extent, the million board feet a day production...the entire meaning of the forests of the Pacific Northwest-the "Big Woods"? The photographs alone in this absorbing book will instantly transport the reader into this former world. Here was the greatest stand of Douglas fir timber in existence and here was labor for the Poles, Finns, Swedes and Norskies lured out of the Midwest to convert the mammoth trees into the lumber that helped build the West Coast cities. Ralph Andrews presents a fascinating subject-the hope, courage and tragedy in the lives of the men and women who opened up the dense native forests or as the loggers said "brought daylight into the swamp," and converted the trees into the lumber which built the West Coast cities. Here are many nostalgic scenes showing high climbers, fallers balanced on high springboards, yokes of oxen and up to eight spans of horses dragging logs on skidroad, yokes of oxen and up to eight spans of horses dragging logs on skidroads to flumes, rivers and salt water, early donkey engines, railroads on steep grades, logging camps as well as devastating fires. Andrews' style of writing is graphic and spirited with strong emphasis on human interest.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Ralph Andrews has written many books to document American Northwest logging and its people. He lives in Seattle.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Timber: Toil and Trouble in the Big Woods
Verlag: Schiffer Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Good