Willa Hammitt Brown: Gentlemen of the Woods

Cover: 9781517912451 | Gentlemen of the Woods | Manhood, Myth, and the American Lumberjack

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"The folk hero Paul Bunyan stands astride the story of the upper Midwest-a manly symbol of the labor that cleared the vast north woods for the march of industrialization while somehow also maintaining an aura of pristine nature. This conception receives a long overdue and thoroughly revealing correction in Gentlemen of the Woods, a cultural history of the life and lore of the real lumberjack and his true place in American history"--

Über den Autor

Willa Hammitt Brown first had her picture taken with Paul Bunyan when she was four years old in Akeley, Minnesota, and she grew up spending summers on Deer Lake in Itasca County in the heart of the Northwoods Vacationland. She is a writer and historian specializing in American cultural, gender, and environmental history and holds a PhD in history from the University of Virginia. She has taught history, gender studies, and expository writing at the University of Virginia, Harvard University, and onboard the MV Explorer for Semester at Sea. Her writing has been published in The Atlantic, American Jewish History, Western Historical Quarterly, and Environmental History. She lives in Minneapolis.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Introduction: The Cost of Cheap Nature

A Note on Sources

Map of the Northwoods

Map of the Lumberjack’s Playground

Part I. In the Woods

1. Bull Cooks and Walking Bosses: Camp Life in a Booming Industry

2. “His Flesh Hung in Tatters and Strings”: The Violence of Nature

3. On Greenhorns and White Men: Skill and the Boundaries of Race

Part II. In Town

4. That Restless, Roving Spirit: Itinerancy and Resistance

5. “Such People May Invade the City”: Tramp Scares and Skid Rows

6. Five Hundred Drunks in the Street: Snake Rooms, Sprees, and Saloons

Part III. In Memory

7. The Only American Hero: Reinventing the Lumberjack

8. Papering over a Wasteland: Creating a Corporate Myth

9. The Passing of the Pines: Buying and Selling Legends

Conclusion: The Stories We Still Buy

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13:	9781517912451
ISBN-10:	1517912458
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Brown, Willa Hammitt
Hersteller:	University of Minnesota Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	231 x 183 x 33 mm
Von/Mit:	Willa Hammitt Brown
Erscheinungsdatum:	18.02.2025
Gewicht:	0,794 kg