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...century he bulked big as an illustrator (and as a Hearstling pictorial reporter), sometimes earning a sensational $25,000 a year. Thirty-six years after his death, the Hearstwhile artist is now recognized for his deadeye accuracy of detail as almost a major historian. Last year A Dash for Timber was sold for $23,000. And last week a Manhattan gallery was showing 28 early black-&-white Remingtons (including eight of his 22 famed illustrations for Hiawatha...
...Company's handful of agents settled down to a lusty, hard-drinking life (according to one observer they could not sign their names before 10 in the morning or remember them after 6 in the evening), and conducted brisk export in rubber, timber, tobacco, birds' nests, camphor, and turtle eggs. They introduced certain sublimations of the head-hunting urge-tariffs, taxes, railroads, the telegraph and the telephone...
McDermand makes it sound worth going after. He writes of lonely, bone-chilling nights, of the joys of casting, and of trout for breakfast. Up above California's timber line there is just enough brush to shade the water and yet not enough to tangle a backcast. Some of the rock-bound lakes have names like Evolution, some have no names, some have no fish. But mostly they are chockfull of golden trout dying of old age for lack of fishermen...
...timber stands of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, this nocturnal scene was common last week. More than a thousand "peckerwood" (portable) sawmills had suddenly appeared and gone into frenzied production. The piles of lumber around them, and the permanent mills, covered acres (see cut). But little of it was moving legitimately into the lumber-starved housing industry; it was apparently being hoarded to cash in on high-prices if OPA ceilings came...
...paper, and the mill that supplied it could get no logs. Last week Publisher Rufus Woods, the portly sage of central Washington journalism, thought of a way to break the log jam. He rallied 30 staffers, borrowed axes and crosscut saws, led his band into a stand of timber...