02476cam a22003373u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000380012624500550016426400510021930000470027033600260031733700260034333800360036950000310040550502840043650800960072052011410081653400450195765300200200265300560202285600430207899900170212122233UtSlPG20260610133519.0mcr n260607r2007||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a04025386  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aWhite, Stewart Edward,d1873-194610aBlazed trail stories, and Stories of the wild life 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2007  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2007-08-040 aBlazed trail stories: The riverman. The foreman. The scaler. The river-boss. The fifth way. The life of the winds of heaven -- Stories of the wild life: The girl who got rattled. Billy's tenderfoot. The two cartridges. The race. The saving grace. The prospector. The girl in red.  aProduced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net  a"Blazed Trail Stories" by Stewart Edward White is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. The book primarily explores the rugged life of lumberjacks and the adventures and challenges they face in the wilderness. It presents characters such as Roaring Dick and Jimmy Powers, who embody the spirit and camaraderie of the logging community against the backdrop of natural beauty and danger.  The opening of the collection introduces us to a lively lumber town during a Fourth of July celebration in the mid-1880s. The narrator observes a gathering of rough-and-tumble rivermen, whose camaraderie is soon put on display during a birl contest—a competition to see who can balance on a log the longest. Amid the festivities, we meet Roaring Dick, an agile and confident birler, and Jimmy Powers, his rival who bears a grudge against Dick from a previous encounter. This initial scene sets a stage for themes of competition, rugged masculinity, and the harsh beauty of nature as the stories promise to delve deeper into the lives and adventures of these wild characters. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aWestern stories  aFrontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22233  c63377d63377