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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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
