Gentlemen of the woods manhood, myth, and the American lumberjack
The folk hero Paul Bunyan, burly, bearded, wielding his big ax, 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 idea, celebrated in popular...
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| 250 | |a [Hardcover edition]. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Minneapolis : |b University of Minnesota Press, |c [2024] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã2024 | |
| 300 | |a xxxiii, 319 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations (some color), maps, portraits, facsimiles ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (page 239-293) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a The cost of cheap nature -- In the woods. Bull cooks and walking bosses: camp life in a booming industry ; "His Flesh hung in tatters and strings": the violence of nature ; On greenhorns and white men: skill and the boundaries of race -- In town. That restless, roving spirit: itinerancy and resistance ; "Such people may invade the city": tramp scares and skid rows ; Five hundred drunks in the street: snake rooms, sprees, and saloons -- In memory. The only American hero: reinventing the lumberjack ; Papering over a wasteland: creating a corporate myth ; The passing of the pines: buying and selling legends -- The stories we still buy. | |
| 520 | |a The folk hero Paul Bunyan, burly, bearded, wielding his big ax, 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 idea, celebrated in popular culture with songs and folktales, 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. Along with its portrait of lumberjack life and its analysis of the creation of lumberjack myth, this book offers new insight into the intersections of race and social class in the logging enterprise, considering the actual and perceived roles of outsider lumberjacks and Native inhabitants of the northern forests. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Loggers |z Great Lakes Region (North America) |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Logging |z Great Lakes Region (North America) |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Lumbermen |z Great Lakes Region (North America) |x Folklore. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Lumbermen in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Loggers |z United States |x Public opinion. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Indigenous peoples |z America |x Public opinion. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Indigenous peoples |x Public opinion. | |
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