Whistle Punks & Widow-Makers Tales of the BC Woods
by Swanson, Robert & Ken Drushka
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 1550171771
- ISBN 13
- 9781550171778
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing. Very Good+. 1998. Reprint. Softcover. 1550171771 . Card covers show very light shelf wear. ; A bright, solid book,; B&W Photographs; Square 4to 9" - 11" tall; 160 pages; These tales from the golden age of logging in BC star all the legends of the woods. Not the founders of corporate dynasties, but the hookers, fallers, bull cooks, whistle punks and locie engineers who became real-life Paul Bunyans of the West Coast. "From sheer force of personality," writes Ken Drushka in his introduction, "these men rose above their workaday callings and became the subject of interminable bunkhouse bull sessions and barroom storytelling."Whistle Punks and Widow-Makers features twenty-six unforgettable stories about these near-mythical characters. They had names like Bull Sling Bill, Eight-Day Wilson, Daddy Lamb and Broomhandle Charlie, and their stories are told by Robert Swanson, who was an inveterate collector of bunkhouse ballads for more than half a century. With over 120 photos from the glory days of logging, many of them published here for the first time." .
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- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18529
- Title
- Whistle Punks & Widow-Makers Tales of the BC Woods
- Author
- Swanson, Robert & Ken Drushka
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1550171771
- ISBN 13
- 9781550171778
- Publisher
- Harbour Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Madeira Park, BC
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- 1550171771, logging, Forestry, British Columbia
- Bookseller catalogs
- Forestry;
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