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A young boy growing up on a northern Minnesota farm describes the scenes around him and recounts his old Norwegian uncle's tales of an almost mythological logging past. The winter room is where Eldon, his brother Wayne, old Uncle David, and the rest of the family gather on icy cold nights, sitting in front of the stove. There the boys listen eagerly to all of Uncle David's tales of superheroes. Then one night Uncle David tells the story, "The Woodcutter,"...

The gang has trouble on the water as Bill, Circus and Little Jim are caught in a flood of Sugar Creek, then Poetry, Dragonfly and Bill are canoeing on Pass Lake, Minnesota when a big storm hits.