building-logs

Updated: June 14, 2025

"The hours are shorter, but where the winter's hardest on the open middle prairie the work's more severe. There the little man spends a good deal of his time hauling home stove-wood or building-logs for new stables or barns. He has often to drive several leagues with the thermometer well below zero before he can find a bluff with large enough trees.

Harold Bindloss - The Long Portage