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Spiked Boots: Sketches of the North Country
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- Condition
- Title
- Spiked Boots: Sketches of the North Country
- ISBN
- 9780881504361
- Book Title
- Spiked Boots: Sketches of the North Country
- Item Length
- 8.3in
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Canada / General, United States / State & Local / General
- Item Width
- 5.6in
- Item Weight
- 13.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 290 Pages
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In the days of log drives on the rivers of New England, whenever a riverman was killed on the drive, his comrades hung his spiked boots on a tree to mark the spot. As a youth, Robert Pike spotted such a pair of boots, and from that moment was born his lifelong fascination with the colorful history of the New England logging industry. The dozens of tales he collected are narrated here by "Old Vern," a cantankerous backwoods character. Here are legends and wild anecdotes of the loggers and rivermen who worked in the woods and on the Connecticut and Androscoggin Rivers, plying their romantic, dangerous trade in the early part of this century. Others tell of "quaint characters" and "unusual specimens of God's carelessness"--people like Ginseng Willard, who slept in a coffin for two years just to get used to it, or Ervin Palmer, a hermit who dreamed of making a violin that would duplicate the sounds of the natural world. Although Pike was a respected scholar and historian and the author of many books, Spiked Boots is the one he wanted to be remembered by. We are proud to restore to print this important piece of New England folk history. Illustrated with never-before-published photographs from the author's private collection, and a new foreword by Helen-Chantal Pike, who grew up hearing her father's tales as bedtime stories.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
088150436x
ISBN-13
9780881504361
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9038706248
Product Key Features
Book Title
Spiked Boots: Sketches of the North Country
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Canada / General, United States / State & Local / General
Publication Year
1999
Genre
History
Number of Pages
290 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
13.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
F9.P57 1999
Copyright Date
1999
Lccn
99-038141
Dewey Decimal
974/.04/092
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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