Springer grew up among the pine forests of Maine and spent years in the logging camps himself. He describes the trees, the winter camps, the teamsters and their oxen, the felling and hauling of great pines, the spring drives down the rivers of Maine and New Brunswick, and the hardships and humour of life among the loggers.
A first-hand 1851 record of American lumbering in its heroic age. Download the free EPUB.