Life in a North Woods Lumber Camp
Life in a North Woods Lumber Camp

Author: William J. O'Hern

Publisher:

Published: 2018-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780974394367

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Long before Thomas O¿Donnell entered school he had chewed tobacco and pitched horseshoes with lumberjacks at his father¿s camp. He witnessed the felling of the tallest trees and watched wide-eyed as the lumberjacks rode the logs through swift waters. He sat at the table when they arm wrestled and was a spectator at axe throwing competitions. Life in a North Woods Lumber Camp is O¿Donnell¿s personal story of his life growing up in a lumber camp, vivid recollections that lay dormant for fifty years following his death. William J. O¿Hern has brought this lost treasure to light in a lavishly illustrated book with dozens of period photographs.

Journey Back to Lumberjack Camp
Journey Back to Lumberjack Camp

Author: Janie Lynn Panagopoulos

Publisher: River Road Publications

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780938682363

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Twelve-year-old Gus McCarty struggles at school with an obnoxious classmate named Al until an accident sends him back in time to a lumber camp with an equally troublesome lumberjack named Alex.

Logging in Wisconsin
Logging in Wisconsin

Author: Diana L. Peterson

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2017-07-10

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 143966143X

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Logging in Wisconsin explores the 70 years when logging ruled the state, covering the characters who worked in forests and on rivers, the tools they used, and the places where they lived and worked. Wisconsin was the perfect setting for the lumber industry: acres of white pine forests (acquired through treaties with American Indians) and rivers to transport logs to sawmills. From 1840 to 1910, logging literally reshaped the landscape of Wisconsin, providing employment to thousands of workers. The lumber industry attracted businessmen, mills, hotels, and eventually the railroad. This led to the development of many Wisconsin cities, including Eau Claire, Oshkosh, Stevens Point, and Wausau. Rep. Ben Eastman told Congress in 1852 that the Wisconsin forests had enough lumber to supply the United States "for all time to come." Sadly, this was a grossly overestimated belief, and by 1910, the Wisconsin forests had been decimated.

The Measure of Katie Calloway (Northwoods Dreams Book #1)
The Measure of Katie Calloway (Northwoods Dreams Book #1)

Author: Serena B. Miller

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2011-10-01

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 144123411X

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The Civil War has ended, but in Katie Calloway's Georgia home conflict still rages. To protect herself and her young brother from her violent and unstable husband, she flees north, finding anonymity and sanctuary as the cook in a Northwoods lumber camp. The camp owner, Robert Foster, wonders if the lovely woman he's hired has the grit to survive the never-ending work and harsh conditions of a remote pine forest in winter. Katie wonders if she can keep her past a secret from a man she is slowly growing to love. With grace and skill, Serena Miller brings to life a bygone era. From the ethereal, snowy forest and the warm cookstove to the rowdy shanty boys and the jagged edges of the saw, every detail is perfectly rendered, transporting the reader back to the time when pine was king, men were made of iron, and rivers were choked with logs on the way to the sawmills. Readers will have a hard time leaving the Northwoods when they turn the last page.

The Fruitcake Challenge
The Fruitcake Challenge

Author: Carrie Fancett Pagels

Publisher:

Published: 2014-10-24

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780692290033

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Selah Award finalistWhen new lumberjack, Tom Jeffries, tells the camp cook, Jo Christy, that he'll marry her if she can make a fruitcake, "as good as the one my mother makes," she rises to the occasion. After all, he's the handsomest, smartest, and strongest axman her camp-boss father has ever had in his camp-and the cockiest. And she intends to bring this lumberjack down a notch or three by refusing his proposal. The fruitcake wars are on! All the shanty boys and Jo's cooking helpers chip in with their recipes but Jo finds she'll have to enlist more help-and begins corresponding with Tom's mother.Step back in time to 1890, in beautiful Northern Michigan, near the sapphire straits of Mackinac, when the white pines were "white gold" and lumber camps were a way of life. Jo is ready to find another life outside of the camps and plans that don't include any shanty boys. But will a lumberjack keep her in the very place she's sworn to leave?

Unending Devotion
Unending Devotion

Author: Jody Hedlund

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2012-09-01

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1441260420

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High-Stakes Drama Meets High-Tension Romance In 1883 Michigan, Lily Young is on a mission to save her lost sister, or die trying. Heedless of the danger, her searches of logging camps lead her to Harrison and into the sights of Connell McCormick, a man doing his best to add to the hard-earned fortunes of his lumber baron father. Posing during the day as a photographer's assistant, Lily can't understand why any God-fearing citizen would allow evil to persist and why men like Connell McCormick turn a blind eye to the crime rampant in the town. But Connell is boss-man of three of his father's lumber camps in the area, and like most of the other men, he's interested in clearing the pine and earning a profit. He figures as long as he's living an upright life, that's what matters. Lily challenges everything he thought he knew, and together they work not only to save her sister but to put an end to the corruption that's dominated Harrison for so long.

How to Fell a Timberman
How to Fell a Timberman

Author: Sharla Rae

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-08-31

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 9781517031626

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Vidar Bjornson carved the logging town of Whiskey Spit out of the wilderness on the Puget Sound. But he isn't done. He promised his men brides and they will arrive in the spring. No decent woman will have his uncouth loggers, so he requests an old maid teacher to polish their rough edges. Instead, his prankster brother sends beautiful Noelle Bridger and his men are already fighting over her! There's no time to find a replacement so Vidar is stuck with the sassy woman. With a scandal in Texas nipping her heels Noelle has no choice but to stay. But she decides to teach the deceitful logging boss a few lessons of his own. Will the schoolmarm's loving lessons fell the timberman? Or will his secret past bring them both down?