Whistle Punks and Widow-Makers : Tales of the B. C. Woods

The legendary heroes of the woods come alive in this collection of stories from the golden age of logging on the West Coast. Meet Harry Todd, who could run a steam donkey and roll a cigarette at the same time; Eight-Day Wilson, the coast's most famous short staker; Broomhandle Charlie Snowden, the guy you called when you had a locie that couldn't drag a hat out of a lard bucket, and a host of others. Robert Swanson wrote down their stories -- not as literal history but as myth, for they were and still are larger than life.Robert Swanson (1905-1994), the "Bard of the Woods", worked for years as a logger, then as a forestry safety inspector. He went to every camp on the coast, where he spent long evenings bullslinging with the legends of logging. His Rhymes of a Western Logger, a book of bunkhouse ballads first produced in the 1940s, was published in a new edition in 1992.Swanson, Robert is the author of 'Whistle Punks and Widow-Makers : Tales of the B. C. Woods', published 2000 under ISBN 9781550171778 and ISBN 1550171771.