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.

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Poor man's paradise An empire itself The "big mill" and its world Logging the coos timber Getting by Surviving the Great Depression The Second World War Lumber capital of the world Timber forever Bosses and workers Hard times and survivors Post mortem : reflection son the present condition