The Milkweed Ladies Author:Louise McNeill The Last Forest will take you back in time to the 1880s, to the unspoiled West Virginia wilderness. G. D. (Douglas) McNeill's collection of stories begins with the forest primeval, before the railroads and loggers disturbed the tranquility of centuries. It ends 50 years later, with the last virgin forest cut over and despoiled. Anyone who l... more »oves good writing and a well-told tale will enjoy The Last Forest. Through its pages fishermen, hunters and hikers can imagine the hardwood forests of the Allegheny Mountains a hundred years ago, then retrace the sorry history of their exploitation and destruction. Much of the book's action takes place along the Cranberry and Williams rivers, an area now protected as a federally designated wilderness area. The Last Forest was written in the 1930s, and had been out of print for half a century.« less