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...goes about the city in a Bohemian costume that consists of a black Homburg hat, grey flannels, a Mackinaw and heavy brogans...
Holbrook is well-known for his successful book "Holy Old Mackinaw...
Holbrook has led a varied life ranging from lumber-jacking in Winnipeg to writing and reporting. His book, "Holy Old Mackinaw" has run through five editions and received extensive praise from Carl Van Doren, historian...
...these old favorites. Last month, as Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends dropped far down on most lists, it looked as if the newer books were coming into their own, with C. Vann Woodward's Tom Watson reported as a best-seller in Atlanta, Holy Old Mackinaw a leader on the West Coast, Lewis Mumford's The Culture of Cities popular in the East, and Einstein & Infeld's The Evolution of Physics selling widely (3,000 in its first week) all over the country. Last month's published lists boiled down to these headliners...
...scale U. S. logging goes back a little more than a century but covers a lot of ground. Last week Stewart Holbrook covered a lot of the ground in a breezy volume called Holy Old Mackinaw which placed most emphasis on the industry's picturesque history and its hard-boiled camp followers. Subtitled A Natural History of the American Lumberjack, Holy Old Mackinaw has chapters on lumberjack songs and the changes in logging techniques, on river drives, log thieves, the I. W. W., forest fires, loggers' slang and legends. Author Holbrook's warmest passages are given over...