Description: A newly annotated edition of a landmark 1926 collection of lumberjack songs, augmented by a biography of pioneering song collector Franz Rickaby and additional songs that he collected.
Brief description:
Franz Rickaby (1889-1925) was born in Arkansas, educated at Knox College and Harvard University, and taught at the University of North Dakota.
Review Quotes: "[Rickaby] was the first to put the singing lumberjack into an adequate record and was of pioneering stuff. ... His book renders the big woods, not with bizarre hokum and studied claptrap ... but with the fidelity of an unimpeachable witness. --Carl Sandburg