Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Dixie Ranger, Vol. 5: March, 1939
Of course, we innocents from all over the Service had first to be inducted into the legends of Paul Bunyan whose original home was Maine since the days of the first sawmill in the New World built on the Saco in 1634. However, after we were shown the scenes of his exploits and listened with all eyes and ears, together with a proper degree of respect, to those tales, the hard-boiled reserved Yankee lumberjack and the volatile enthusiastic french-canadian river driver vied with each other in proving to us that the hospitality of true woodsmen everywhere is as true of maine as elsewhere.
The forests of Maine were her first natural asset and, as the largest continuous forest preserve east of the Mississippi, still are among its most important assets, so the damage to her forests by the hurricane of September 21, 1958, while not as wide Spread as that in New Hampshire, for instance, nevertheless was as great relatively, for practically the entire range of the white pine suffered damage.
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