Stewart Holbrook was a high school dropout who emerged from logging camps to become the author of three dozen books, the Pacific Northwest’s foremost storyteller, one of the nation’s most popular historians, and a satirical painter known as “Mr. Otis.” Today readers are rediscovering Holbrook’s colorful and irreverent accounts of Pacific Northwest history. Wildmen, Wobblies, and Whistle Punks collects twenty-six of Holbrook’s best writings about the region. Combining solid scholarship with humor and a gift for celebrating the offbeat, Holbrook’s stories record a vibrant, often overlooked side of Northwest history. Here are forgotten scandals and murders; stories of forest fires, floods, and other calamities; tales of loggers and life in the logging camps; and profiles of various lowbrow characters—radicals, do-gooders, dreamers, schemers, and zealots.  "[Holbrook] has the supreme virtue of being continuously and riotously readable." — New York Herald Tribune "Pick a spot, open the book, and Holbrook will grab you, drawing you into a tale with his immense skill as a storyteller." — The Oregonian Brian Booth was a Portland attorney, founder of the Oregon Institute of Literary Arts (now Literary Arts), and editor, with Glen A. Love, of Davis Country: H. L. Davis’s Northwest (OSU Press). Used Book in Good Condition