Prologue: "1902. For half a century the lumber barons had stripped the midwest of its forests, leaving a barren desolation of stump-lands. As the supply failed, they turned their eyes toward...The Pacific slopes of California where, like living cathedrals, giant redwoods stood as a heritage of beauty symbolizing in their grandeur man's hope for immortality--but man in his greed saw in these trees only a source of profit and soon...The cool, green redwood forests echoed to the clamor of axe and saw. Backed by the limitless power and wealth the timber barons moved in, ruthlessly crushing small land owners, destroying human happiness and natural beauty alike...It was the era of the timber steal. The oldest living things in the world were threatened with annihilation to satisfy the money lust of power--mad forest buccaneers, timber cruising pirates..."

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