Blazed trail stories, and Stories of the wild life by Stewart Edward White

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Author White, Stewart Edward, 1873-1946
LoC No. 04025386
Title Blazed trail stories, and Stories of the wild life
Note Reading ease score: 82.4 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Contents Blazed trail stories: The riverman. The foreman. The scaler. The river-boss. The fifth way. The life of the winds of heaven -- Stories of the wild life: The girl who got rattled. Billy's tenderfoot. The two cartridges. The race. The saving grace. The prospector. The girl in red.
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Summary "Blazed Trail Stories" by Stewart Edward White is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. The book primarily explores the rugged life of lumberjacks and the adventures and challenges they face in the wilderness. It presents characters such as Roaring Dick and Jimmy Powers, who embody the spirit and camaraderie of the logging community against the backdrop of natural beauty and danger. The opening of the collection introduces us to a lively lumber town during a Fourth of July celebration in the mid-1880s. The narrator observes a gathering of rough-and-tumble rivermen, whose camaraderie is soon put on display during a birl contest—a competition to see who can balance on a log the longest. Amid the festivities, we meet Roaring Dick, an agile and confident birler, and Jimmy Powers, his rival who bears a grudge against Dick from a previous encounter. This initial scene sets a stage for themes of competition, rugged masculinity, and the harsh beauty of nature as the stories promise to delve deeper into the lives and adventures of these wild characters. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Western stories
Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction
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EBook-No. 22233
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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