About the Author

James LeMonds has lived most of his life in Castle Rock, Washington, a logging town in the shadow of Mount St. Helens. The son of a log truck driver, LeMonds first tasted the danger and grueling conditions of work in the woods during two summers spent as a choker setter--which quickly cured him of any desire to leave college for the life of a logger.

Reviews

"Lemonds's great accomplishment . . . is the manner in which he tells this tale--not as sweeping overview, but as underview, so to speak--as heartfelt personal account of three generations in his family and his town."