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DEADFALL
Generations of Logging In The
Pacific Northwest
James LeMonds
Through the life stories of the author's grandfathers, father, uncles,
and cousins, Deadfall documents the dramatic changes in the logging
industry since the early 1900s. The book focuses on the influence of
international timber giant Weyerhaeuser Company in the Pacific Northwest,
yet it's themes resonate from Alaska to the American Southeast - wherever
timber is king. While spurning nostalgia for logging's glory days, Deadfall
attempts to view a future for today's timber workers.
"James LeMonds' Deadfall is a clear-eyed classic... No matter what
view readers have about the spotted owl and Big Timber, they'll find
Deadfall to be first-rate reporting by a skilled writer who tells it like
it is." -William Dietrich, Pulitzer Prize-winning former
correspondent for the Seattle Times and author of The Final Forest
"No one who reads Deadfall Will ever again romanticize the logger
as some superhuman mythmaker, or condemn him as a heartless
woods-wrecker." -Robert Michael Pyle, author of Wintergreen
"Honest, Erudite, passionate, poignant, meticulous, and written
with enormous grace and love for a dying craft and way of
life." -Brian Doyle, editor of Portland Magazine
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 James
LeMonds has lived most of his life in Castle Rock, Washington, a logging
town in the shadow of Mt. St. Helens. The son of a log-truck driver,
LeMonds has worked on a railroad section crew, in the woods setting
chokers, and in a brewery. He holds a master's degree in education
from Lewis and Clark College and teaches English at R. A. Long High School
in Longview, Washington. 
Available
at the Museum Store
$10.00
ISBN 0-87842-363-X
Westmedia Corporation
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