Intro -- Contents -- 1. Where the Rivers Run North -- 2. Hungry Mike and the Doubleheader -- 3. Broke and Busted -- 4. Too Late for the Man Catcher -- 5. Up in Smoke -- 6. Old Sard -- 7. The Long Good-Bye -- 8. Mischbrot -- 9. Under an Open Sky -- 10. Finger Stew -- 11. The Long Knife -- 12. A Dose of This and a Dose of That -- 13. Call Him Lucky -- 14. The Mystery of the Sugar Bowl -- 15. The Sweepers -- 16. Now You See It, Now You Don't -- 17. Better Than an Empty Pot -- 18. Dead Man's Rapids -- 19. Blood and Iron -- 20. A Wassel Tale -- 21. A Hand in the Bush -- 22. I Wish I May, I Wish I Might -- 23. One Shoe Off and One Shoe On -- 24. Dick Goes Fishing -- 25. The Key Log -- 26. Devil Mouse -- 27. The Sluice Gate -- 28. Of Toads and Tar Buckets -- 29. If Wishes Were Horses -- 30. Dead and Downed -- 31. The Widow Johnson -- 32. The Sound of Silence -- 33. Alles Hat Ein Ende -- 34. Stewed Prunes and Pickle Pie -- 35. The Wiener War -- 36. The Last Rapids -- 37. A Pair of Flashing Eyes -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments
Summary
In late 1800s Minnesota, 13-year-old Ben Ward goes to work with his father in a lumber camp and signs up for a log drive with his friend Nevers, where together they endure freezing weather, dangerous rapids, logjams, storms, floods, and pioneer life in general
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