| Paddling across lakes and hiking over mountain passes, the woodsmen traced Gamut and the girls to an Indian village. |
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| Alpine farmers checking their flocks, woodsmen, hunters, postmen and border guards used skis as pure tools for transport. |
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| The conflicting demands of autocampers, walkers, and woodsmen would play an important role in shaping the nation's federal land policy. |
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| Armed with machetes they worked with their woodsmen in the arduous task of trail cutting. |
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| Distance over land was measured in miles, estimated by the experienced woodsmen. |
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| For hundreds of years, woodsmen in Britain practiced coppicing, a method of harvesting timber. |
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| The furriers had learned the skills of expert woodsmen, and were not afraid of being in the forest. |
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| The woodsmen profession has always been one of the most widespread professions in the mountains. |
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| These woodsmen and women are experts in their craft and can offer a perspective of the northern wilderness unlike any other. |
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| The skills and tools used by local woodsmen can be seen at the Chestnut Museum. |
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| Master woodsmen are useful allies to any army, and indispensable for any sizable group of people living in the wilderness. |
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| He remains one of the only remaining woodsmen still capable of building pit kilns. |
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| For more than half a century, woodsmen entered the forests of New Brunswick in search of pine and oak. |
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| Next to him are the fur traders, woodsmen from the upper reindeer pastures, with their treasures. |
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| Under the French regiment, Fir-tree gum harvesting quickly became an activity that woodsmen and trappers turned into tidy seasonal profits. |
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| Meanwhile, French-Canadian woodsmen employed by Philomen Wright were engaged in building accommodations at the future site of Richmond. |
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| Old-style woodsmen, these guys like to hunt on foot with longbows. |
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| Good woodsmen can save lives, ease travel, provide food, and their skill with a bow is capitally useful in a fight. |
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| At age 12 he was felling trees and lifting logs for exercise, and at age 14 he was wrestling woodsmen on even terms. |
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| In the 19th century American loggers devised thousands of ingenious brands, many of them reflecting the lusty humour of the woodsmen. |
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| Yet, within the hour, Forgeron, who had led a crew of woodsmen to cut down one of Duquet's pine-heavy townships, arrived in Boston. |
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| Those woodsmen are masters of infiltration, launching surprise attacks on unsuspecting enemies. |
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| Such methods enable woodsmen to clear-cut a stand of timber more thoroughly than ever. |
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| Sketch maps were sometimes drawn in the large community meetings, but many surveyors reported greater success working with smaller groups of experienced woodsmen. |
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| Among the most accurate observers of all are woodsmen accustomed to finding their way through the wilderness by noting natural signs in a landscape that would seem completely uniform to a city-dweller. |
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| Two waves of migrants populated this immense region, so far from major cities and barely one hundred years old-first came the woodsmen, fur traders and land-clearers, then the prospectors drawn by the gold rush. |
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| Usually of humble origins, hailing from the peasantry or woodsmen, military bowmen are trained to competence with both a bow and a short sword, and are very common on the battlefield. |
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