Early Loggers and the Sawmill

Ages 8 to 13 years. The settlers lived in a world made from wood. A settler's first home was usually a tiny log cabin but every settler dreamed of building a more comfortable plank house. "Early Loggers and the Sawmill" shows the rugged life of the lumberjack and how wood was processed explaining: the use of hand-powered whip-saws; the early sawmill; water power, the muley, and rotary saws; setting up the lumber camp; the excitement and danger of a lumberjack's life; the river-drivers who rode the logs down-river; western logging.Kalman, Bobbie is the author of 'Early Loggers and the Sawmill' with ISBN 9780865050068 and ISBN 0865050066.