The raftsman tells me he seen Bryce down at the end o' the conveyin' belt givin' that refuge the once-over-so step easy."
"The Valley of the Giants"
Peter B. Kyne
Bill, the second raftsman, a stolid, silent man, at once swung his axe upon a log of driftwood.
"The Spirit of the Border A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley"
Zane Grey
At the same moment there stepped from behind a pine a gigantic man, dressed as a raftsman, and with a pole as big as a ship's mast in his hand.
"The Marvellous History of the Shadowless Man and The Cold Heart"
Adelbert von Chamisso Wilhelm Hauff