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A readable history of the families and companies who logged the Pacific Northwest during the 19th and early 20th century.

A wonderful collection of essays by well known Southern authors and visitors to the South, ranging chronologically from the Revolutionary period into the first decades of the 20th century. Organized by topics, including land, rivers, home work, education etc., each selection is very well documented as to the date and author. One section is devoted to "The Negro" as African-Americans before the modern Civil Rights era. An excellent source to begin understanding the Southern literary tradition, or as a research source. B&W Photographs following pp. 230, adn 614. Previous owner's signature penciled inside front cover,along with a small, faint Yale Co-op stamp, and another faint stamp and erased price in upper right corner. No dust jacket.

Mary Livermore's own description of her life as a "Teacher, Author, Wife, Mother, Army Nurse, Soldier's Friend, Lecturer, and Reformer," including her experiences as a nurse in the American Civil War. Illustrated with portraits and 120 engravings. i-xxxiv; 35-730 pp. plus 2 advertisements for other publications from A.D. Worthington & Co. Publishers. One of the blank end pages is missing in front, and there is a niche taken out of the blank end pages in back. Otherwise this book is in quite good condition.

Text begins in 1877 with the B&O Railroad strike, and ends with the student strike of 1970, and a achapter on international left wing activity. The balance of the book is about the American labor movement, with blow by blow and hour by hour descriptions of the unfolding drama. Well worthwhile.