Survival in a Mill Town, by Von Braschler

Survival in a Mill Town, by Von Braschler For many years, the 1916 Everett Massacre which systematically killed countless mill workers has been swept away. There has been a sort of amnesia about that Bloody Sunday and a strange sort of immunity for the civic leaders who brutalized lumber workers. These were sawmill workers who…

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Holy Old Mackinaw, by Stewart Holbrook

Holy Old Mackinaw (256 pages) 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…

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