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John Nelligan: Wisconsin Lumberjack
Contributor(s): Zimm, John (Author)
ISBN: 0870206982     ISBN-13: 9780870206986
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
OUR PRICE:   $11.66  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Historical
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Business & Economics
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2015010080
Lexile Measure: 900
Series: Badger Biographies
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.8" W x 8.8" (0.50 lbs) 80 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
Experience the adventures and tough life of a lumberjack in this newest addition to the Badger Biographies Series. Author John Zimm leads young readers on a journey through the lumbering heyday of Wisconsin's North Woods as witnessed by lumberman John Nelligan, whose writings were the basis for John Nelligan: Wisconsin Lumberjack.

Born in 1852, Nelligan rose through the lumberjack ranks, starting out as a humble laborer and working his way up to foreman. He worked and lived in Maine, Pennsylvania, and even Canada before coming to Wisconsin in 1871. Learn what surviving and sawing wood for a living was like many years ago--from the story of one Wisconsin man who lived it