Hard Times in Paradise

<p>Blessed with vast expanses of virgin timber a good harbor and a San Francisco market for its lumber the Coos Bay area once dubbed itself a poor man's paradise. A new Prologue and Epilogue by the author bring this story of gyppo loggers longshoremen millwrights and whistle punks into the twenty-first century describing Coos Bay’s transition from timber town to a retirement and tourist community where the site of a former Weyerhaeuser complex is now home to the Coquille Indian Tribe’s The Mill Casino.</p>