Holy Old Mackinaw

Holy Old Mackinaw

Holy Old Mackinaw

Stewart H. Holbrook / Stewart HHolbrook

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Editorial:
Epicenter Press
Año de edición:
2016
Materia
Historia de América
ISBN:
9781941890066
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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.

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