Imagination assured us that we should go puffing into camp with the sound of axes ringing on every side; the crash of falling trees echoing from the distance and drivers shouting as they urged over burdened cattle along, the road.
Clara Iza Price, "The Man with the Axe", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 17, 1907, from: Ralph Andrews, Timber, Seattle, 1968, p. 59.
TIME: 1907
PLACE: West Coast (U.S.A.) forest
CIRCUMSTANCE: a visit to a lumber camp.
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