The loggers shown in this painting in the early 1900s are walking back to camp after a long, hard day's work. They have been felling giant Douglas Fir trees of the Pacific Northwest. They are carrying crosscut saws (or misery whips as they were sometimes called), axes, mauls, and bottles of kerosene used to free saws of pitch.

Darkness comes quickly in the dense forests and these men were dog-tired and anxious to get to camp and eat their evening meal at the cook house.