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قراءة كتاب The Pioneer Woodsman as He is Related to Lumbering in the Northwest
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The Pioneer Woodsman as He is Related to Lumbering in the Northwest
THE PIONEER WOODSMAN AS HE IS RELATED TO LUMBERING IN THE NORTHWEST
By
GEORGE HENRY WARREN
MINNEAPOLIS
PRESS OF HAHN & HARMON COMPANY
1914
By George Henry Warren
THIS BOOK TO THE MEMORY OF
WILLIAM S. PATRICK,
GUIDING FRIEND AND HELPFUL COUNSELOR
OF MY EARLIER MANHOOD YEARS.
Foreword.
The aim will be to take the reader along on the journey of the pioneer woodsman, from comfortable hearthstone, from family, friends, books, magazines, and daily papers, and to disappear with him from all evidences of civilization and from all human companionship save, ordinarily, that of one helper who not infrequently is an Indian, and to live for weeks at a time in the unbroken forest, seldom sleeping more than a single night in one place.
The woodsman and his one companion must carry cooking utensils, axes, raw provisions of flour, meat, beans, coffee, sugar, rice, pepper, and salt; maps, plats, books for field notes; the simplest and lightest possible equipment of surveying implements; and, lastly, tent and blankets for shelter and covering at night to protect them from storm and cold.
Incidents of the daily life of these two voluntary reclusionists, as they occurred to the author, and some of the results obtained, will be told to the reader in the pages which are to follow.
Table of Contents.
| Chapter | Page | |
| I. | Sowing the Germ That I Knew Not. | 13 |
| II. | Preparations for the Wilds of Wisconsin. | 15 |
| III. | Entering the Wilds of Wisconsin. | 18 |
| IV. | Surveying and Selecting Government Timber Lands. | 22 |
| V. | Gaining Experience—Getting Wet. | 28 |
| VI. | A Birthday Supper. | 33 |
| VII. | A New Contract—Obstacles. | 40 |
| VIII. | A Few Experiences in the New and More Prosperous Field. | 47 |
| IX. | Tracing Gentlemen Timber Thieves—Getting Wet—Fawn. | 56 |
| X. | Does It Pay to Rest on Sunday? | 63 |
| XI. | Indian Traits—Dog Team. | 69 |
| XII. | Wolves—Log Riding. | 73 |
| XIII. | Entering Minnesota, the New Field. | 77 |
| XIV. | An Evening Guest—Not Mother's Bread. | 94 |
| XV. | A Hurried Round Trip to Minneapolis—Many Incidents. | 101 |
| XVI. | The Entire Party Moves to Swan River. | 117 |
| XVII. | Methods of Acquiring Government Land—An Abandoned Squaw. | 125 |
| XVIII. | United States Land Sale at Duluth—Joe LaGarde. | 129 |
| XIX. | Six Hundred Miles in a Birch Canoe. | 135 |
| XX. | Effect of Discovery of Iron Ore on Timber Industry. | 142 |
| XXI. | Forest Fires. | public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@41925@[email protected]#Page_159" |