Blessed with vast expanses of virgin timber, a good harbor, and a San Francisco market for its lumber, the Coos Bay area once dubbed itself "a poor man's paradise." A new Prologue and Epilogue by the author bring this story of gyppo loggers, longshoremen, millwrights, and whistle punks into the twenty-first century, describing Coos Bay's transition from timber town to a retirement and tourist community, where the site of a former Weyerhaeuser complex is now home to the Coquille Indian Tribe's The Mill Casino.
- ISBN10 0295803312
- ISBN13 9780295803319
- Publish Date 1 July 2011 (first published 1 November 1988)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Washington Press
- Edition 2nd Revised ed.
- Format eBook
- Pages 236
- Language English