Terry Porter's unique and visually dazzling handbook has always been indispensable--and this new edition adds 17 species of lumber not included before, bringing the list up to a grand total of 400! Plus, there's a new section displaying a variety of decorative figuring, information on wood defects and potential health hazards, and an enlarged glossary. Wonderful full-color pictures give close-up views of the various wood grains, while the main section showcases more than 200 woods used in cabinetmaking, joinery, carpentry, turning, carving, and a host of specialist applications, and another 200 receive shorter listings. Every featured wood is illustrated and described in detail, with invaluable facts on its working properties, seasoning requirements, durability, and typical uses.

"Butte may be the most unplastic place in America." Molly Ivins "Butte was mercurial .... The wicked, wealthy, full-blooded little city welcomed me with wild enthusiasm of the most disorderly kind." Theodore Roosevelt In the town that produced Evel Knievel, a plane that attempts to land on a city street is not a surprise, unless the pilot disappears and leaves a dead man in his place. When a Cessna 180 crashes into a miner's cottage in historic uptown Butte, two men flee the plane, leaving behind a third who isn't talking. He's dead. Did the victim, a high-profile ex-con, deserve this fate? Just how did he die? And what was he doing in Butte? Chance Dawson and his sister, Mesa, who edits the weekly paper, pursue a bittersweet story that takes them from Montana to Idaho and Utah, where western individualism and retribution collide to reveal a killer.