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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.

Lumber trade --- Logging --- Loggers --- History. --- Coos Bay (Or.) --- Buckers (Persons) --- Fallers (Persons) --- Lumberjacks --- Timber buckers (Persons) --- Timber fallers (Persons) --- Forest harvesting --- Pulpwood --- Timber --- Trees --- Lumber industry --- Timber industry --- Harvesting --- City of Coos Bay (Or.) --- Lumbermen --- Lumbering --- Forestry engineering --- Forests and forestry --- Forest products industry --- Marshfield (Or.) --- Empire (Or.) --- Eastside (Or.)