Driving logs in the rapid waters of Maine is hazardous work. Scarcely a day passes without imminent risk to life and limb of the hardy and venturesome men engaged in the work of breaking log landings and jams, and running boats. Men are exposed to wet and cold from dawn till dark. This work requires active and vigorous men, constitutionally fitted and carefully trained to the work. They are usually sociable, lively and wide awake, these qualities enabling them to endure, and even to enjoy, the life of hardship which they lead, and to which they become so accustomed that they are unwilling to leave it until worn out by its inevitable hardship. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. W. H. C. Folsom Frontispiece James S. Anderson opp 55 Martin Mower 60 John McKusick opp 68 Edward White Durant 74 William M. Blanding 114 Reuben F. Little 121 Oliver Wendell Holmes Hospital 157 John Comstock opp 170 Hans B. Warner opp 207 Rev. Wm. T. Boutwell 273 Devil's Chair 301 Frank N. Peterson 320 Rev. E. E. Edwards 348 Smith Ellison 351 Isaac Staples opp 413 Jacob Bean 416 Louis Hospes 418 Fort Snelling 498 William D. Washburn opp 517 John S. Pillsbury opp 528 St. Anthony Falls 531 Birdseye View of St. Paul opp 536 Henry H. Sibley opp 553 Alex. Ramsey opp 555 Henry M. Rice opp 558 Edmund Rice opp 560 Wm. Rainey Marshall opp 568 Wm. H. Fisher 571 John B. Sanborn opp 577 H. P. Hall 589 Hon. G. W. Le Duc 594