Author: Ralph W. Andrews
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The reissue of this classic history allows us to once again journey into the past and rediscover for the first time the forgotten men and methods of logging history in the Northwest United States and Canada. This book contain the best photographs of a dozen famous collections: Davis and Benson rafts, river drives, hand logging spar topping big wheels in the pine, saw mills of 1890 to 1915, historical ox teams, tractors, blumes. In this chronicle of the Big Woods, bunk house ballads, humorous sketches and eyewitness accounts of work and life in the tall uncut as well as the rich photographs help the reader to actually feel the old logging atmosphere.
Author: Darris Flanagan
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781931291354
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this first-ever book of its kind for Montana, historian Darris Flanagan has compiled, in text and photograph, a detailed look at the early "glory days" of logging in Montana. From an historical overview to detailed looks at the major components of the state's logging history -- lumberjacks, river drives, tie hacks, horse logging, donkey engines, railroads, trucks, crosscut saws and chainsaws, as well as a lively chapter about the Wobblies and the Strike of 1917 -- he literally provides the reader with a close-up and personal view of this major industry and the rugged men who strode through its colorful history.
Author: David Lee
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
Published: 2006-07-07
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781550289220
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →David Lee presents an in-depth history of the Ottawa Valley and the economy that dominated its formative years, as well as examining the environmental impact on the region's natural resources.
Author: James LeMonds
Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Logging has been a way of life in the Pacific Northwest, a thread woven into the character of communities, for more than a century. And in this far corner, James LeMonds's family has done about every job in the woods-working as high climbers and whistle p
Author: Ralph Warren Andrews
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780517169841
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert E. Pike
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1999-07-17
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0393248607
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this robust, informal book, Robert E. Pike tells the colorful story of logging and log-driving in New England. The New England loggers and river drivers were a unique breed of men. Working with their axes and peaveys through Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, they contributed mightily to the development of the United States. The daily life of the loggers was hard — working in deep icy water fourteen hours a day, sleeping in wet blankets, eating coarse food, and constantly risking their lives. Their pay was very low, yet they were proud to call themselves loggers. When they came out of the woods after the spring drives, they ebulliently spent their pay carousing in the staid New England towns. Robert E. Pike, who as a youth worked in the woods and on the rivers, writes affectionately and knowingly, with humorous anecdotes, of every detail of lumbering. He describes the daily life of the logging camps, giving a picture of the different specialist jobs: the camp boss, the choppers, the sawyers and filers, the scaler, the teamsters, the river men, the railroaders, and the lumber kings. His descriptions bring the reader vividly into the woods, smelling the tangy, newly cut timber, hearing the boom of the falling trees. "The author's lively prose matches the temper of his subject. . . . This is basic history, geography, psychology, economics, and folklore all rolled into one top-quality volume." — R. S. Monahan, New York Times Book Review
Author: Ralph W. Andrews
Publisher: Drama Inteh Northwest Timber C
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Text and photographs detailing the native peoples of the Pacific Northwest and the pioneering spirit of the early lumbermen of that place.
Author: Rosemary Enright and Sue Maden
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 146713189X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Grays Harbor reigned supreme as the "Logging Capital of the World" for 150 years. Homesteaders became loggers and hired local Indians, who had logged the area's massive trees since ancient times. Sailors, too, were hired to rig spar trees. They fearlessly plied lumber schooners across destructive waters and carried timber products to the East Coast, South America, and other foreign ports. Over time, power saws replaced crosscut saws, and logging methods evolved. Today, loggers in Grays Harbor have begun a new phase of producing timber products that is built on a heritage of strong families, good citizens, and hard work.