Holy Old Mackinaw : A Natural History of the American Lumberjack

Holy Old Mackinaw is the rough and lusty story of the American lumberjack at work and 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.