"The folk hero Paul Bunyan stands astride the story of the upper Midwest-a manly symbol of the labor that cleared the vast north woods for the march of industrialization while somehow also maintaining an aura of pristine nature. This conception receives a long overdue and thoroughly revealing correction in Gentlemen of the Woods, a cultural history of the life and lore of the real lumberjack and his true place in American history"--
"The folk hero Paul Bunyan stands astride the story of the upper Midwest-a manly symbol of the labor that cleared the vast north woods for the march of industrialization while somehow also maintaining an aura of pristine nature. This conception receives a long overdue and thoroughly revealing correction in Gentlemen of the Woods, a cultural history of the life and lore of the real lumberjack and his true place in American history"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Willa Hammitt Brown first had her picture taken with Paul Bunyan when she was four years old in Akeley, Minnesota, and she grew up spending summers on Deer Lake in Itasca County in the heart of the Northwoods Vacationland. She is a writer and historian specializing in American cultural, gender, and environmental history and holds a PhD in history from the University of Virginia. She has taught history, gender studies, and expository writing at the University of Virginia, Harvard University, and onboard the MV Explorer for Semester at Sea. Her writing has been published in The Atlantic, American Jewish History, Western Historical Quarterly, and Environmental History. She lives in Minneapolis.
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Contents Introduction: The Cost of Cheap Nature A Note on Sources Map of the Northwoods Map of the Lumberjack’s Playground Part I. In the Woods 1. Bull Cooks and Walking Bosses: Camp Life in a Booming Industry 2. “His Flesh Hung in Tatters and Strings”: The Violence of Nature 3. On Greenhorns and White Men: Skill and the Boundaries of Race Part II. In Town 4. That Restless, Roving Spirit: Itinerancy and Resistance 5. “Such People May Invade the City”: Tramp Scares and Skid Rows 6. Five Hundred Drunks in the Street: Snake Rooms, Sprees, and Saloons Part III. In Memory 7. The Only American Hero: Reinventing the Lumberjack 8. Papering over a Wasteland: Creating a Corporate Myth 9. The Passing of the Pines: Buying and Selling Legends Conclusion: The Stories We Still Buy Acknowledgments Notes Index
Contents Introduction: The Cost of Cheap Nature A Note on Sources Map of the Northwoods Map of the Lumberjack’s Playground Part I. In the Woods 1. Bull Cooks and Walking Bosses: Camp Life in a Booming Industry 2. “His Flesh Hung in Tatters and Strings”: The Violence of Nature 3. On Greenhorns and White Men: Skill and the Boundaries of Race Part II. In Town 4. That Restless, Roving Spirit: Itinerancy and Resistance 5. “Such People May Invade the City”: Tramp Scares and Skid Rows 6. Five Hundred Drunks in the Street: Snake Rooms, Sprees, and Saloons Part III. In Memory 7. The Only American Hero: Reinventing the Lumberjack 8. Papering over a Wasteland: Creating a Corporate Myth 9. The Passing of the Pines: Buying and Selling Legends Conclusion: The Stories We Still Buy Acknowledgments Notes Index
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