I reviewed Willa Hammitt Brown's Gentlemen of the Woods: Manhood, Myth, and the American Lumberjack for The Nation. The book is excellent, but what it really allowed me to do.
This is the grave of Buzz Martin. Born in 1928 in the ridiculously named Coon Hollow, Oregon, a community near Stayton, Martin was a man of the working class. His.
The desire of people to redo their homes in the face of being inside for a year has led to an unprecedented lumber boom. Prices have, in turn, skyrocketed. For.
Oxford University Press has released what it is calling the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. It's written by top scholars and is something that is primarily (or maybe exclusively).
Willa Brown published a piece in the Atlantic yesterday on "lumbersexuality" and a crisis of masculinity. By lumbersexuality, Brown means the logger fetish a certain subset of bearded hipster men.
I'm sure the timber industry is glad it retook its historically appropriate title America's most dangerous job. An excerpt from my book manuscript draft, part of which explores the history.
If there's one thing in this world I follow more closely than any other, it's the politics surrounding forestry in the Pacific Northwest. So I found this Michael Donnelly essay.
