Job with Room and Board

In 1907 at the age of eighteen, John B. Taylor took a summer job with the US Forest Service-mapping the wilderness and cruising the timber in the as-yet-unroaded Swan Valley in Montana. The job came with room and board over a million acres of room and plenty of grouse to supplement the salted pork and hard crackers they brought with them. During the school year in his hometown of Missoula, he studied classics at the university, but after witnessing the brutal exploitation of timber along th...