Ralph W. Andrews Books

The photos in this absorbing book will instantly transport the reader into the former world of logging. Here was the greatest stand of Douglas fir timber in existence and here was labor for the Poles, Finns, Swedes, and Norskies lured out of the Midwest to make the lumber that helped build the West Coast cities.

The reissue of this classic history allows us to once again journey into the past and rediscover for the first time the forgotten men and methods of logging history in the Northwest United States and Canada. This book contain the best photographs of a dozen famous collections: Davis and Benson rafts, river drives, hand logging spar topping big wheels in the pine, saw mills of 1890 to 1915, historical ox teams, tractors, blumes. In this chronicle of the Big Woods, bunk house ballads, humorous sketches and eyewitness accounts of work and life in the tall uncut as well as the rich photographs help the reader to actually feel the old logging atmosphere.