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Very good condition with very good dust jacket. Signed by the author with inscription : "To Gene Kleinfell (who is writing his own book on the "Normal School Frontier") and Dorothy, with best wishes. Sept 1969"
The Lumberjack Frontier
The Life of a Logger in the Early Days on the Chippeway
Retold from the Recollections of Louie Blanchard
BY WALKER D. WYMAN
With the assistance of Lee Prentice
The Chippewa, or Ojibwa, Indians were the first proprietors of the magnificent forest stretching across the northern parts of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. When the early settlers found this forest, some of the pines had been growing for more than three hundred years and were so large that three or four of them contained enough lumber to build a house. The Wisconsin pineries in the post-Civil War period are the setting for these reminiscences of life on the lumberjack frontier.
Born in 1872 of a French-Canadian father and a Belgian mother, Louie Blanchard grew up on the Chippewa River and went to work in the pineries at the age of four-teen. By the time he retired to farm his homestead in the Cutover Country in 1912, he knew every inch of the river, had shot all the rapids down to Eau Claire, and had taken part in the biggest drives ever seen on the Chippewa. He became widely known in the region as a great storyteller, and his recollections-a potpourri of lumberjack lore, tall tales, and personal experiences-constitute an informal social history of the lumberjack frontier.
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