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When you read about Mark Twain's Mississippi raftsmen and pilots, or Bret Harte's Western gold miners, they seem more remote than the cannibals of the Stone Age.

From Time Magazine Archive

Young Heyerdahl entertained a theory that Incan raftsmen might thus have freighted their civiliza tion to Polynesia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some, who are almost starving, ingratiate themselves with the raftsmen.

From Contemporary Russian Novelists by Persky, Serge

The raftsmen had all been arrested, and were examined carefully, one by one; and now it only remained to obtain from the traveller himself whatever information he could contribute to throw light on the affair.

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Lever, Charles James

Carl, a servant of Joseph's, and son to the spinner who lived up on the rock, was surrounded by a group of raftsmen, woodsmen, and teamsters, who were all gesticulating in the wildest manner.

From Waldfried A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold