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Settlements and farmsteads spread across the state, and each year the timbermen marched deeper into the woods.—Literary Hub, 10 June 2026 The 19th century tale's protagonist, Ephraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson), is a timberman who's left behind the excess of the forest for the solitude of the ocean as a lighthouse keeper's apprentice.—Garrett Mitchell, azcentral, 24 Oct. 2019