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Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
The spectacular but unforgiving terrain of 1927 Vermont sets the stage for this collision between high-stakes progress and a frontier way of life. Lengendary Yankee log-driver Noel lord defies power company boss, Clayton Farnsworth who orders Lord and his feisty American Indian mate off their soon-to-be flooded land. Farnsworth never met a man he couldn't buy ... but then, he'd never met Noel lord.
2) AXMEN Sea. 3
Pub. Date
2010
Description
For more than a hundred years, larger-than-life characters, many of whom are members of logging families who go back to the time when the West was being settled, have spent their days among towering trees and powerful machines and their nights in outposts far from the comforts of civilization. This is their remarkable story, detailing the history of the logging industry and how technology has transformed life for today's logger, while the struggle...
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Explore the past and present of the rough-and-tumble logging industry and the treacherous lives of Pacific Northwest timber cutters. Follow five logging crews, including a team of diving loggers and another that relies on helicopters, through a season in the remote forests of northwest Oregon.
Pub. Date
2010
Description
For more than a hundred years, larger-than-life characters, many of whom are members of logging families who go back to the time when the West was being settled, have spent their days among towering trees and powerful machines and their nights in outposts far from the comforts of civilization. This is their remarkable story, detailing the history of the logging industry and how technology has transformed life for today's logger, while the struggle...
Description
Katie is ready to leave her small town for a career-changing opportunity in New York. But an accident involving her dad forces Katie to turn down the job and help with the family business. She soon discovers their company is at risk of going under and winning the prize money from the holiday lumberjack competition may be her only hope to save it. When a romance sparks with fellow competitor Harrison and New York comes calling again, Katie must choose...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
From World War II to today, men and women have undertaken roles that involve overwhelming peril, seemingly unbeatable odds, and almost certain death. From lumberjacks in remote forests to truckers on an ice road to tank crews and pathfinders in war zones. Witness terrifying assignments as paratroopers land behind enemy lines, Navy demolition units clear obstacles before D-Day, British battalions take out German gun batteries, just to name a few.
10) Paul Bunyan
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
The spirit of early America is captured in the tale of Paul Bunyan's logging exploits in the northern United States.