Log Logger by Underwood Marsh (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 12mo. (21 cm.) 62p. Flat signed by the author on the half-title page as follows: "Marsh Underwood." Illustrated with 20 black and white captioned photos, including onf of the author and his son, and three black and white captioned drawings Green cloth with gilt letters on the front cover. Some wear to extremities with nothing rubbed through, a couple of spots on the front cover, cloth clean, gilt bright, all photos and drawings in fine condition, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket probably as issued. "Logging of fifty years ago was condierably different from that of the present day. I have seen, and helped change, the mode of getting logs out of the woods from sled roads and bulls to the high-powered equipment now used by the large companies of the Pacific Northwest." [from the first page] This is the biographical memories of a man who was a logger for more than 50 years in Vermont, Wisconsin and Washington State. It is filled with information about loggers and logging, from what they ate, to how they slept, to what they did for entertainment, to how logging operations were carried out, to the various companies he worked for, etc., etc. A very interesting and authentic account for anyone interested in logging. Signed by Author(s).

12mo. 62 pp. Photo illustrations throughout. Green publisher's cloth, gilt lettering front cover (slight shelfwear, very slight rubbing & faint spotting), still NF copy. First edition of this self-published memoir detailing this Cowlitz County logger's beginnings in New England, Wisconsin, and finally working lumber camps along the Lewis River in Southwest Washington, and in Snohomish, Washington. He has included a sketch of a Wisconsin logging camp, as well as many historic photographs, describing logging methods, early logging companies in the West, and more. Underwood (1876-1939) originally worked as a Vermont logger, and by 1910 was a River Driver directing log rafts from Woodland, WA down to Portland, OR on the Columbia River, and later as logging camp superintendent in Snohomish, WA.