Forest Life and Forest Trees: Comprising Winter Camp-Life Among the Loggers and Wild-Wood Adventure

Initially published in 1851, Forest Life and Forest Trees was the first book of its kinds to detail the great lumbering operations of the Maine woods, from timber cruising to felling trees to the great river drives in the following spring, at a time when Maine furnished the principal part of the lumber consumed in the United States and the West Indies. It provides a rare glimpse of a lifestyle which pitted men against "forest whales" and which has now vanished, along with the giant pines.