The Treasure of Namakagon

It is 1883 and you are about to plunge into the peak of nineteenth century lumberjack life in northern Wisconsin. Meet your mentor, Chief Namakagon who just may show you the way to his secret silver mine (an actual mine yet to be rediscovered). Meet sixteen-year-old Tor Loken, whose father owns a remote lumber camp. Join the fight when a sinister lumber baron takes control of the river, threatening the men’s winter wages and the future of the camp. Be at the cook shanty table before dawn for breakfast. Then, it’s out into the cuttings where, knee deep in snow, you will help harvest a hundred thousand giant pine logs. Hook up the Clydesdales to the water tanker and ice down the trails for the big timber sleighs. Take the train to the city but keep an eye out for cunning charlatans intent on an easy swindle. Spin a yarn and sing along with the other jacks in the bunkhouse. Go to town for a Saturday night of lumberjack merriment but dress warmly; it’s a four hour sleigh ride back to camp at twenty below zero. Come spring, you’ll help drive timber down a thundering river, jumping from log to log as they rush downstream. Then it’s time to celebrate. But keep your pocketbook buttoned up; there are bandits and thugs in town who want to separate you from your dollar-a-day wages! Put on your red wool mackinaw and your calked boots. Grab your peavey or a pike pole. You’re in for a good look at life in the 1880s pinery—and a great adventure story!