Whistle Punks & Widow-Makers: Tales of the BC Woods

by Robert E. Swanson

These tales from the golden age of logging in BC star all the legends of the woods. Not the founders of corporate dynasties, but the hookers, fallers, bull cooks, whistle punks and locie engineers who became real-life Paul Bunyans of the West Coast. "From sheer force of personality," writes Ken Drushka in his introduction, "these men rose above their workaday callings and became the subject of interminable bunkhouse bull sessions and barroom storytelling."...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550171771
• ISBN13: 9781550171778
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Harbour Publishing Company, Limited
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"