Big Timber, a Story of the Northwest (Classic Reprint): With Frontpiece by Douglas Duer: With Frontpiece by Douglas Duer (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Sinclair, Bertrand W.

9781330395257: Big Timber, a Story of the Northwest (Classic Reprint): With Frontpiece by Douglas Duer: With Frontpiece by Douglas Duer (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 1330395255 ISBN 13: 9781330395257

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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This captivating novel thrusts readers into the untamed wilderness of the Pacific Northwest during the early 20th century. It follows Estella Benton, a young woman who leaves behind her comfortable life to join her brother at his remote logging camp. The book authentically depicts the rugged living conditions, camaraderie, and harsh realities of life in the logging industry. The author explores themes of self-discovery, societal norms, and the bonds of family amidst the backdrop of a wild and unforgiving landscape. The novel offers a glimpse into a fascinating era, showcasing the resilience and determination of those who dared to venture into the untamed frontiers of North America. Its exploration of nature's grandeur and the human experience in the face of adversity makes it a compelling read for those interested in history, adventure, and the evolving nature of human relationships.

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Excerpt from Big Timber, a Story of the Northwest: With Frontpiece by Douglas Duer

Estella Benton's experience along such lines was chiefly a blank and the conditioning circumstances of her present journey were somber enough to breed thought that verged upon the melancholy. Save for a natural buoyancy of spirit she might have wept her way across North America. She had no tried stand ard by which to measure life's values for she had lived her twenty-two years wholly shielded from the human maelstrom, fed, clothed, taught, an untried product of home and schools. Her head was full of university lore, things she had read, a smattering of the arts and philosophy, liberal portions of academic knowledge, all tagged and sorted like parcels on a shelf to be reached when called for. Buried under these externalities the ego of her lay unaroused, an incalculable quantity.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Big Timber, a Story of the Northwest: With Frontpiece by Douglas Duer

The Imperial Limited lurched with a swing around the last hairpin curve of the Yale canyon. Ahead opened out a timbered valley, - narrow on its floor, flanked with bold mountains, but nevertheless a valley, - down which the rails lay straight and shining on an easy grade. The river that for a hundred miles had boiled and snarled parallel to the tracks, roaring through the granite sluice that cuts the Cascade Range, took a wider channel and a leisurely flow. The mad haste had fallen from it as haste falls from one who, with time to spare, sees his destination near at hand; and the turgid Fraser had time to spare, for now it was but threescore miles to tidewater. So the great river moved placidly - as an old man moves when all the headlong urge of youth is spent and his race near run.

On the river side of the first coach behind the diner, Estella Benton nursed her round chin in the palm of one hand, leaning her elbow on the window sill.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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