"Timber!" The lusty, long-drawn cry echoed through America's Northwest at the turn of the century, when giant trees were felled by men with big dreams who conquered the vast forests of California, Washington and Oregon. These were the Heroes of the Western Woods - men who helped America expand to greatness. In these stirring pages, Ralph W. Andrews brings these rugged pioneers vividly to life. While telling their individual stories, he also presents a memorable and authentic picture of the awe-inspiring challenges, the bitter disappointments, the dangers and the incredible accomplishments of those early logging days.Here is true adventure, drawn from actual records of the time, which dramatically recreates for young Americans one of the most vigorous and colorful chapters in their country's history.

In this companion to a forthcoming PBS series, Wood journeys to some of the remotest places on earth in search of four of mankind's most powerful myths: Shangri-La, Jason and the Golden Fleece, the Queen of Sheba, and King Arthur.

John Breckingridge (1760-1806) served in the Virginia and Kentucky Legistaltures United States Congress and United States attorney general under Thomas Jefferson.

Trails Through Western Woods is a history book by Helen Fitzgerald Sanders. Excerpt: "The writing of this book has been primarily a labour of love, undertaken in the hope that through the harmonious mingling of Indian tradition and descriptions of the region—too little known—where the lessening tribes still dwell, there may be a fuller understanding both of the Indians and of the poetical West."

Epic battles, hideous monsters and a host of petty gods--the world of Classical mythology continues to fascinate and inspire. Heroes like Herakles, Achilles and Perseus have influenced Western art and literature for centuries, and today are reinvented in the modern superhero. What does Iron Man have to do with the Homeric hero Odysseus? How does the African warrior Memnon compare with Marvel's Black Panther? Do DC's Wonder Woman and Xena the Warrior Princess reflect the tradition of Amazon women such as Penthesileia? How does the modern superhero's journey echo that of the epic warrior? With fresh insight into ancient Greek texts and historical art, this book examines modern superhero archetypes and iconography in comics and film as the crystallization of the hero's journey in the modern imagination.