Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks: Fifty Of The Grittiest Moments In The History Of Hardscrabble New England - Paperback
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Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks is a printed history of New England at its roughest, fifty short chapters of true and badly behaved.
Matthew Mayo writes it as episodes rather than as a survey, so the region arrives through the people who worked it and occasionally robbed it.
What you get
Fifty self contained stories, a few pages each, about loggers, fishermen, smugglers and the hard cases who kept turning up where the money was.
Good to know
Readers describe it as a dip in and out book, which the short chapters make true. Anyone wanting one long continuous history should look elsewhere.
From the publisher
The story of New England is built on an endless armature of fascinating stories of Yankee ingenuity and hardy, intrepid characters. Bootleggers, Lobstermen, and Lumberjacks will take the top fifty wildest episodes in the region's history and present them to the reader in one convenient, narrative-driven package.
Matthew P. Mayo is the author of several fiction and nonfiction books, including Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears (TwoDot, January 2010) and the Western novels Winters' War, Wrong Town, and Hot Lead, Cold Heart. Raised in Rhode Island and Vermont, he has spent much of his adult life in Maine, writing about the state for Down East and other publications. Visit him at matthewmayo.com.
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