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Superior Publishing Company, Published 1957. Hardcover, 176 pp.; 28 cm; illustrated throughout with black-and-white historical photographs. Introduction by James Stevens. Undated later issue, without the signed and numbered limitation of the 1957 Autographed Edition; rear jacket panel advertises Superior titles of 1960 and 1961.
In Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Brown cloth boards, tan cloth spine, brown lettering on spine. Mild shelf and edge wear. Binding tight. Light staining to fore-edge of text block. Endpapers mildly toned and a few small spots along outer margins of preliminary leaves; pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Orange pictorial dust jacket (photograph of a mill and log pond) has a few small nicks and tears, light creasing along edges, and a 3-inch dampstain at head of front panel; mild shelf and edge wear with light scuffing and soiling. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Pictorial history of sawmilling in the Pacific Northwest, British Columbia, Montana and Northern California, from the first water-powered sash mills to the steam mills, lumber schooners and company towns of the early twentieth century. Includes chapters on the Klamath country, the Spokane pines, sugar pine, Grays Harbor and the Schafer Brothers, Tillamook Bay and Hobsonville, Brookings, Coos Bay, Mendocino County redwood mills and dog-hole ports, sawmill sign language, sawyers and filers, and the "free fare" labor system. Photographs are drawn from the Union Lumber Company, Darius Kinsey, the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum, the Universities of Washington and Oregon, and the British Columbia Forest Service. Introduction by novelist James Stevens. Andrews (1897-1988), a Seattle writer and recipient of the Seattle Historical Society award for distinguished achievement, also wrote This Was Logging and Glory Days of Logging. Contents: Introduction; Water Wheels in the West; Timber Ventures and Adventures; Gullet Cracks; Mills for the Rail Trade; Timber at Tidewater; Clears and Stars; Water Lines to Mill and Market; Saws and Men; Stiffs and Savages.