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Croix, and the upper Mississippi are re spun to groups of listening loggers on Vancouver Island. Yarns originating among the river drivers of the Ottawa, the St.
Stories which I know to have originated on the Penobscot and the Kennebec are told, some what strengthened and improved, in the redwood camps of Humboldt Bay. The lumber jack is an imaginative being, and a story loses none of its interest as it is carried and repeated from one camp to another. Thrilling tales of ad venture are told in camp wherever the logger has entered the wilderness. Excerpt from Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods: With a Few Desert and Mountain BeastsĮvery lumber region has its lore.
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