loggers

Ann Holmes, a sixteen-year-old runaway living in a Washington forest, is visited by the Virgin Mary--an event that sets off struggles of faith and conscience in her supporters and in a young priest whose attempts to evaluate her experience are clouded by his attraction to her.

The author's paintings of Canadian lumber camps accompany his first-hand observations of the life of a lumberjack.

Ruby wants to be a teacher, but after her father's death in a logging accident she must quit school to care for her ten brothers and sisters, until a chance meeting with a lonely old blind woman transforms her life.

This book relates stories of the legendary Paul Bunyan, the created hero of the loggers who made life in the logging camps less boring.

Details the lives and innovations of nineteenth-century loggers in the Old West including a look at the language they created.

Describes how elephants are trained to help in the timber camps of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, and their important contribution to the selective and sustainable harvesting of teak there.

Describes the lives of people involved in logging and the expansion of the railroads in the American West during the second half of the nineteenth century.

Contains a retelling of the classic Canadian folktale. "Chasse-galerie" wherein eleven-year old Baptiste, working in a remote logging camp, misses his friends and family, and the working lumberjacks come up with a magical plan to get back home in time for the New Year.

When his Jewish parents send him to a Minnesota logging camp to escape the influenza epidemic of 1918, ten-year-old Marven finds a special friend.

Hals Halson, who is nearly as tall as the legendary Paul Bunyan, strides into a logging camp determined to prove himself the greatest lumberjack in North America, despite Paul's attempts at friendship.