Holy Old Mackinaw

by Stewart H Holbrook

Overview

The American lumberjack at work and at play, from Main to Oregon - here is his rough and lusty story. In these modern days, timber is harvested by cigarette-smoking married men, whose children go to school in busses, 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, an ax in his fist, a plug of cheweing handy, and emerged at intervals into the towns to call on soft ladies and drink hard liquor.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781941890066
Publisher:	Epicenter Press (WA)
Publication date:	06/10/2016
Series:	A Natural History of the American Lumberjack
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Beloved Northwest author Stewart H. Holbrook, a Vermont native and former logger, came to Portland, Oregon, in 1923. His works of popular history covered a variety of topics, including logging, famous figures of the Old West, and interesting events and people of the Pacific Northwest. A columnist for the Oregonian, Holbrook had articles published in newspapers and magazines all over the country, and he published many books. Holbrook described these writings as "lowbrow or non-stuffed shirt history." The much-celebrated author was known to consort with a wide variety of people, from the literary elite to loggers and labor organizers.

Table of Contents

Foreword 3

Saga of The Jigger 5

The Flowering of a Lumber Town 17

The Beginnings of Sawdust 30

Daylight in the Swamp 41

The White-Water Men 52

First Migration 69

Big Doings Along the Saginaw 77

The Hell-Roaring Era 87

Sin in the Pineries 101

Fighters, Birlers, and Such 112

Ballads of the Woods 122

Death in Hinckley 133

The Big Jump: Second Migration 141

Bullwhacking the West Shore 149

Steam and Highball 165

Blowing Her In 177

The Wobblies Come 189

Log Pirates on the Sound 201

Around the Barrel Stoves 208

The Passing of a Race 222

A Loggers' Dictionary 233

Acknowledgments 242

Books 243

Magazines and Newspapers 245

Index 246