Puget Sound Lumberjack: : Hard Work and Small Pleasures 1906-1910 - Softcover

Nevue, Wilfred; Branting, Susan M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0985981210 ISBN 13: 9780985981211

Publisher: Ten Sleep Press, 2021

Synopsis

In 1906, 20-year-old Wilfred Nevue boarded a train to the Pacific Northwest, planning to earn money for college. Experienced at logging in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, he was confident he could handle a lumberjack's job on Puget Sound - until he arrived in Seattle where the jobs were strange and environment alien. This is a personal history of the rough camps, the men he worked with, his adventures in Seattle, and the ways in which he adapted - and didn't - to life in the Northwest.

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About the Authors

In 1906, Wilfred Nevue (1886-1996) left the family farm in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan ambitious to attend college and with a plan to earn the tuition working as a lumberjack on Puget Sound. His adventures - ranging across four eventful years - brought him dangers and hardship but also beauty and friendship.

Susan M. Branting holds a master's in journalism and has 40 years of experience writing and editing. This is the second of her grandfather's memoirs that she has compiled into a book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ten Sleep Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0985981210
• ISBN 13: 9780985981211
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 182