Holy Old Mackinaw is the rough and lusty story of the American lumberjack at work and at play, from Maine to Oregon. In these modern days timber is harvested by cigarette-smoking married men, whose children go to school in buses, 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 and ax in his fist, a plug of chew handy, who emerged at intervals into the towns to call on soft ladies and drink hard liquor.
Includes Holbrook's 1937 correspondence written to gather research information on logging and lumbermen for his book Holy old Mackinaw. Also includes autograph manuscript notes and printed matterials on lumbering, as well as drafts of this book and a few other writings.
Excerpt from Old Mackinaw: Or, the Fortress of the Lakes and Its Surroundings Mackinaw and its surroundings - Indian legends - Hiawatha - Ottawas and Ojibwas - Paw-pau-ke-wis - San-ge-man - Kau-be-man - An Indian custom - Dedication to the spirits - Au-se-gum-ugs - Exploits of San-ge-man - Point St. Ignatius - Magic lance - Council of Peace - Conquests of San-ge-man. Mackinaw, with its surroundings, has an interesting and romantic history, going back to the earliest times. The whole region of the Northwest, with its vast wildernesses and mighty lakes, has been traditionally invested with a mystery. The very name of Mackinaw, in the Indian tongue, signifies the dwelling-place of the Great Genii, and many are the legends written and unwritten connected with its history. If the testimony of an old Indian chief at Thunder Bay can be credited, it was at old Mackinaw that Mud-je-ke-wis, the father of Hiawatha, lived and died. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
