Splendid Was the Trail

by Kenneth D. Swan

illustrations by Joseph J. Swan

photography by Kenneth D. Swan

foreword by Arnold W. Bolle

published by Farcountry Press

produced by Sweetgrass Books

  • Memoir of the Forest Service's earliest days in the northern Rockies, written by one of the first rangers.

    Return to the "Stetson hat era" of the U.S. Forest Service, when a ranger's gear never failed to include a hat, and his survival depended as much upon his horse's mood as a change in weather.



126 pages, 6'' x 9'', 26 b/w photos, 13 illustrations, index, 76 softcovers per case

softcover
ISBN 10: 1560370351
ISBN 13: 9781560370352
$4.95


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Splendid Was the Trail

[Splendid was the Trail] is a rich and adventuresome chronicle of a forester's life: surveying, mapping, tree planting, preparing yield tables, log scaling, fire fighting by day; the camaraderie of rough camps, backwoods settler's hospitality, and the welcome civilization of tiny mining towns by night.

-Lorna Ream, Spokane Mountaineers



Kenneth D. Swan align= Kenneth D. Swan was a Forest Service ranger in Montana from 1911 to 1947. Lugging a 30-pound camera, he carefully took black-and-white photographs of the remote places he visited and the people he encountered.


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