{"product_id":"wood-hicks-and-bark-peelers-ronald-e-ostman-9780271072074","title":"Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers: A Visual History of Pennsylvania's Railroad Lumbering Communities; The Photographic Legacy of William T. Clarke","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWood Hicks and Bark Peelers\u003c\/i\u003e, Ronald E. Ostman and Harry Littell draw on the stunning documentary photography of William T. Clarke to tell the story of Pennsylvania's lumber heyday, a time when loggers serving the needs of a rapidly growing and globalizing country forever altered the dense forests of the state's northern tier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscovered in a shed in upstate New York and a barn in Pennsylvania after decades of obscurity, Clarke's photographs offer an unprecedented view of the logging, lumbering, and wood industries during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They show the great forests in the process of coming down and the trains that hauled away the felled trees and trimmed logs. And they show the workers--cruisers, jobbers, skidders, teamsters, carpenters, swampers, wood hicks, and bark peelers--their camps and workplaces, their families, their communities. The work was demanding and dangerous; the work sites and housing were unsanitary and unsavory. The changes the newly industrialized logging business wrought were immensely important to the nation's growth at the same time that they were fantastically--and tragically--transformative of the landscape. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn extraordinary look at a little-known photographer's work and the people and industry he documented, this book reveals, in sharp detail, the history of the third phase of lumber in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ronald E. Ostman, Harry Littell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271072075\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271072074\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/07\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 10.80w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2016 pg. 89","brand":"Ronald E. Ostman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44790421586175,"sku":"9780271072074","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5a26c7c6-c2e3-4d6c-bc3e-1d14cf604cc3.jpg?v=1707288891","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/wood-hicks-and-bark-peelers-ronald-e-ostman-9780271072074","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}