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In 1883 Michigan, Lily Young is on a mission to save her lost sister, or die trying. Heedless of the danger, her searches of logging camps lead her to Harrison and into the sights of Connell McCormick, a man doing his best to add to the hard-earned fortunes of his lumber-baron father. Lily can't understand why men like Connell turn a blind eye to rampant crime. She challenges everything he thought he knew, and together they work to save her sister...
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"Rediscover one of the great mystery authors of the twentieth century in this Depression-era tale of a wealthy family's dark secrets turning deadly on their remote lakeside estate. An urgent note from a friend spurs Ann Gay to visit her recently married cousin, Jacqueline Heaton. Upon her arrival at Fiddler's Fingers, a remote, pine-grown estate on Lake Superior, Ann immediately senses her cousin's fear-someone has been playing increasingly malicious...
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Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
©2011
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English
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The Civil War has ended, but in Katie's Georgia home, conflict still rages. To protect herself and her young brother from her unstable husband, she flees north, finding sanctuary as the cook in a north woods lumber camp. Can she keep her past a secret from a man she is slowly growing to love?
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"Glory Days of Logging" by Ralph W. Andrews is a fascinating visual and historical journey into the heyday of the logging industry in the Pacific Northwest. First published in 1956, this book captures the spirit and grit of the loggers and lumberjacks who played a crucial role in shaping the American frontier.
Andrews' narrative is rich with anecdotes and detailed accounts of the logging operations, from the felling of giant trees to the transportation...
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Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Aware of the racial tumult in the years after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Mei tries to remain blissfully focused on her job, her close friendship with the camp foreman's daughter, and telling stories about Paul Bunyan--reinvented as Po Pan Yin (Auntie Po), an elderly Chinese matriarch"--
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MGM Home Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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Lumberman Barney Glasgow abandons saloon girl Lotta to marry a timber heiress only to fall for Lotta's beautiful daughter twenty years later. But this time, Barney has a rival for the young woman's love : his own son.--Container.
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Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
Description
The vanishing gold: Nugget Jones turns to Clutch for help when his gold mine is repeatedly robbed.
The race car mystery: Clutch barely escapes serious injury when his race car crashes at the speedway.
The rocket riot: A crazy scientist has created his own fleet of Moon rockets.
Mystery in the North Woods: Clutch investigates when a friend's logging camp is being victimized by a mysterious gang of thieves.
17) Lumbercamp
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Holiday house
Pub. Date
1937
Language
English
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Fictionalized account of a young greenhorn lumberjack.
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Series
Longarm double volume 3
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Longarm in the Indian Nation: Bank robbery and murder bring Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long to the lawless borders of Oklahoma, where he takes on wild-spirited Indians, ruthless cattle rustlers, gold-grubbing Indian agents, cold-blooded gunslingers -- and a beautiful bounty hunter. Longarm and the loggers: Whipsaw is a timber camp in boom-time Nevada, thick with brawny loggers, cardsharps, and ruby-lipped fancy women. It's a town ruled by lumber...
19) The Amazon
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Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Journalist Malcolm Hillard investigates sabotage at a lumber camp in hopes of finding a connection to a missing American worker, but locals insist that the Spirit of the Amazon is responsible.
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University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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In late 1800s Minnesota, 13-year-old Ben Ward goes to work with his father in a lumber camp and signs up for a log drive with his friend Nevers, where together they endure freezing weather, dangerous rapids, logjams, storms, floods, and pioneer life in general.