Project Gutenberg 2007-08-04 Public domain in the USA. 95 White, Stewart Edward 1873 1946 04025386 Blazed trail stories, and Stories of the wild life Reading ease score: 82.4 (6th grade). Easy to read. 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. Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "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.) en Western stories Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - American Browsing: Fiction 350745 350713 2024-10-09T14:38:37.547627 2023-09-10T06:09:01.765478 text/html text/html 353639 2007-08-04T11:55:14 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 295704 2007-08-04T11:55:14 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 370765 2024-10-09T14:38:47.801534 application/epub+zip 372401 2024-10-09T14:38:41.703577 application/epub+zip 212694 2024-10-09T14:38:40.006569 application/epub+zip 618422 2024-10-09T14:38:51.990522 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 592104 2024-10-09T14:38:46.363557 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 397244 2022-09-10T12:07:23.639497 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 316450 316367 2024-10-09T14:38:36.664581 2023-09-10T06:09:00.893475 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 316195 2007-08-04T11:55:14 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 124754 2007-08-04T11:55:14 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 316187 2007-08-04T11:55:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 124711 2007-08-04T11:55:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21984 2024-10-09T14:38:52.136503 application/rdf+xml 20424 2024-10-09T14:38:40.581691 image/jpeg 4498 2024-10-09T14:38:40.296582 image/jpeg 375753 2024-10-09T14:38:37.586635 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia