Down the Hill: A True Story of Early Logging the Pacific Northwest [Paperback]

Roy Stier (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1996

Down the Hill is Roy Stier's personal account of the evolution of early logging in the misty-green mountains of Washington.

It is a work that gives detail, character, and historical substance to the logging industry. The St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company is a true microcosm for a brash, new Western adventure which became the sprawling 20th century timber industry.

Filled with incredible historical photos, charming anecdotes, and absorbing narratives of the Pacific Northwest, Down the Hill is a unique, insider's perspective of this adventurous industry.

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About the Author

Roy Stier developed a love of the woods from backpack excursions with the Boy Scouts. After graduating from the University of Washington with a degree in forestry, Stier worked as a mangaing forester and logging engineer. Following his forestry career, Stier taught high school for 18 years.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Bookpartners; illustrated edition edition (November 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1885221282
• ISBN-13: 978-1885221285
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,266,922 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Logging From the Ground Up, March 13, 2000

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Howard L. Dixon (Hopewell, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Down the Hill: A True Story of Early Logging the Pacific Northwest (Paperback)

Here's an excellent book about logging and lumbering in the greater Tacoma, WA area. It traces the arrival of those hardy men and women that carved a living out of this wild and untamed area. The author was personally involved as a child and spent a number of his early years in a variety of jobs from the ground up. It is also an excellent testament to the vision of some of those early lumbering businesses that started tree farms and re-forested large tracks of land long before it was a government requirement. If you're interested in the techniques of logging with the various apparatus or riggings and what each is called in the woods, this is the books for you. One thing you'll learn for sure is that no self-respecting logger would ever call himself a "lumberjack" and the only place you'd hear someone call "timber" as a tree falls is in the movies.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Down The Hill: A True Story of Early Logging in The Pacific Northwest, September 5, 2005

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Kaye S. Beechum "KSB" (Fontana, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Down the Hill: A True Story of Early Logging the Pacific Northwest (Paperback)

I have read this book before and wanted a copy to keep in the family archives. Roy Stier is my second cousin and this is a true history of his branch of our family.