<p>The American lumberjack at work and at play from Main to Oregon - here is his rough and lusty story. In these modern days timber is harvested by cigarette-smoking married men whose children go&nbsp; to school in busses but for nearly three hundred years the logger was a real pioneer who ranged through the forests of many states steel calks in his boots an ax in his fist a plug of cheweing handy and emerged at intervals into the towns to call on soft ladies and drink hard liquor.</p>