Outstanding collection of articles by Pacific Northwest journalist Stewart Holbrook, who lived in, worked with and wrote about the logging camps, hardrock miners, homesteaders, fancy ladies, grifters, and other oddballs who settled in the lop left corner of the country during the last half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th.

Now largely forgotten, this collection of reprinted material is available for modern readers to rediscover an authentic Pacific Northwest voice, writing with humor, fondness, and drama about the characters and events that formed modern Washington and Oregon.

Includes a brief biographical sketch by editor Brian Booth, as well as an extensive list of additional reading for the hard-core history buff. ( )

Unfairly forgotten primo Northwest writer who has an unsparing eye and a sensitive BS detector. Funny, exciting, poignant and highly recommended, especially if you live in the Pacific Northwest. Loggers and anarchists, murderers and crazies, all here, all beautifully explicated. ( )