Front MatterSource: Forest History, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Jul., 1973), p. 3Published by: Forest History Society and American Society for Environmental HistoryStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4004404 .

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When the Allegash Drive Goes Through

by Holman E Day

We're spurred with the spikes in our soles; There is water a-swash in our boots;

Our hands are hard-calloused by peavies and poles, And we're drenched with the spume of the chutes.

We gather our herds at the head Where the axes have toppled them loose,

And down from the hills where the rivers are fed We harry the hemlock and spruce.

We hurroop them with the peavies from their sullen beds of snow;

With the pickpole for a goadstick, down the brimming streams we go;

They are hitching, they are halting, and they lurk and hide and dodge,

They sneak for skulking eddies, they bunt the bank and lodge.

And we almost can imagine that they hear the yell of saws

And the grunting of the grinders of the papermills, because

They loiter in the shallows and they cob-pile at the falls,

And they buck like ugly cattle where the broad deadwater crawls.

But we wallow in and welt 'em with the water to our waist,

For the driving pitch is dropping and the Drouth is gasping "Haste!"

Here a dam and there a jam, that is grabbed by grinning rocks,

Gnawed by the teeth of the ravening ledge that slavers at our flocks;

Twenty a month for daring death; for fighting from dawn to dark-

Twenty and grub and a place to sleep in God's great public park;

We roofless go, with the cook's bateau to follow our hungry crew-

A billion of spruce and hell turned loose when the Allegash drive goes through.

My lad with the spurs at his heel Has a cattle-ranch bronco to bust;

A thousand of Texans to wheedle and wheel To market through smother and dust.

But I with the peavy and pole Am driving the herds of the pine;

Grant to my brother what suits his soul, But no bellowing brutes in mine.

He would wince to wade and wallow- and I hate a horse or steer!

But we stand the kings of herders- he for there and I for here.

Though he rides with death behind him when he rounds the wild stampede,

I will chop the jamming king-log and I'll match him, deed for deed.

And for me the greenwood savor and the lash across my face

Of the spitting spume that belches from the back-wash of the race;

The glory of the tumult where the tumbling torrent rolls

With half a hundred drivers riding through with lunging poles.

Here's huzza for reckless chances! Here's hurrah for those who ride

Through the jaws of boiling sluices, yeasty white from side to side!

Our brawny fists are calloused and we're mostly holes and hair,

But if grit were golden bullion we'd have coin to spend and spare!

Here some rips and there the lips Of a whirlpool's bellowing mouth,

Death we clinch and time we fight, For behind us gasps the drouth.

Twenty a month, bateau for a home, And only a peep at town,

For our money is gone in a brace of nights After the drive is down;

But with peavies and poles and carefree souls Our ragged and roofless crew

Swarms gayly along with whoop and song When the Allegash drive goes through.

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?t Forest History

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Elwood R. Maunder

EDITOR

Douglas F. Davis

GRAPHICS EDITOR

Ann Williams

PHOTO EDITOR

Leland J. Prater

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Karen L. Burman

PUBLICATION COMMITTEE

W. H. Hutchinson, chairman California State University, Chico

Thomas R. Cox California State University, San Diego

James B. Craig American Forestry Association

Donald Duke Golden West Books

J. M. McClelland, Jr. Longview Daily News

Donald C. Swain University of California, Davis

Henry J. Vaux University of California, Berkeley

Herbert I. Winer Pulp & Paper Research Institute of Canada

Forest History is published quarterly in April, July, October, and January by the Forest History Society, Inc., 733 River Street, Santa Cruz, California.

The Society sends Forest History to all its members.

All correspondence should be addressed to the Editor, P.O. Box 1581, Santa Cruz, California 95061. Unsolicited manuscripts are accepted.

VOLUME 17 NUMBER 2, JULY 1973

Small Holding Land Patterns in Utah and the Problem of

Forest Watershed Management 4 CHARLES S. PETERSON

Minnesota Forestry Comes of Age: Christopher C. Andrews, 1895-1911 14 R. NEWELL SEARLE

Fort Humboldt Logging Museum: A Brief History 26 DOUGLAS F. DAVIS

Books 31 A History of Lumbering in Maine, 1820-1861

by Richard G. Wood

A History of Lumbering in Maine, 1861-1960 by David C. Smith 31 CHARLES E. CLARK

Logging Along the Rio Grande by Gordon S. Chappell 32 ROBERT M. HANFT

The Paper Rebellion by Harry Edward Graham 33 GEORGE W. BROOKS

National Parks of the World by Kai Curry-Lindahl and Jean-Paul Harroy 34 C. FRANK BROCKMAN

On Preserving Tropical Florida by John Clayton Gifford 35 ROBERT E. ADAMS

Books in Brief 36

News, Comment & Letters 37

Biblioscope 38

Forest History 1958-1973: Author/Title Index 39

COVER

Front cover is Shay steam locomotive number 5 used by the Anaconda Company of Montana in its logging operations from 1923 to 1949. Photo courtesy of Donald Grant MacKenzie. Back cover shows the 1917 flood at Helper, Utah, caused by the breaking of Gooseberry Dam. Photo courtesy of the Utah State Historical Society, Vince Carvaglia Collection.

Forest History is available by subscription at $7.50 per year throughout North America; other continents at $10 per year, airmail at $13. Back issues are available. Single issue price is $2. Microfilm subscriptions are available from University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Indexed in America: History and Life, Environmental Periodicals, Historical Abstracts, Forestry Abstracts, and the Bibliography of Agriculture. Second class postage paid at Santa Cruz, California and San Jose, California. ?Copyright 1973 by the Forest History Society, Inc.

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