Author: Earl Clifton BeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Lore of the Lumber Camps
Author: Earl Clifton BeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Life in a North Woods Lumber Camp
Author: William J. O'HernPublisher:
ISBN: 9780974394367
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Long before Thomas O¿Donnell entered school he had chewed tobacco and pitched horseshoes with lumberjacks at his father¿s camp. He witnessed the felling of the tallest trees and watched wide-eyed as the lumberjacks rode the logs through swift waters. He sat at the table when they arm wrestled and was a spectator at axe throwing competitions. Life in a North Woods Lumber Camp is O¿Donnell¿s personal story of his life growing up in a lumber camp, vivid recollections that lay dormant for fifty years following his death. William J. O¿Hern has brought this lost treasure to light in a lavishly illustrated book with dozens of period photographs.
Journey Back to Lumberjack Camp
Author: Janie Lynn PanagopoulosPublisher: River Road Publications
ISBN: 9780938682363
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Twelve-year-old Gus McCarty struggles at school with an obnoxious classmate named Al until an accident sends him back in time to a lumber camp with an equally troublesome lumberjack named Alex.
Logging in Wisconsin
Author: Diana L. PetersonPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 143966143X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Logging in Wisconsin explores the 70 years when logging ruled the state, covering the characters who worked in forests and on rivers, the tools they used, and the places where they lived and worked. Wisconsin was the perfect setting for the lumber industry: acres of white pine forests (acquired through treaties with American Indians) and rivers to transport logs to sawmills. From 1840 to 1910, logging literally reshaped the landscape of Wisconsin, providing employment to thousands of workers. The lumber industry attracted businessmen, mills, hotels, and eventually the railroad. This led to the development of many Wisconsin cities, including Eau Claire, Oshkosh, Stevens Point, and Wausau. Rep. Ben Eastman told Congress in 1852 that the Wisconsin forests had enough lumber to supply the United States "for all time to come." Sadly, this was a grossly overestimated belief, and by 1910, the Wisconsin forests had been decimated.
Lore of the Lumber Camps
Author: Earl Clifton BeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers
Author: Ronald E. OstmanPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027108460X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
In Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers, Ronald E. Ostman and Harry Littell draw on the stunning documentary photography of William T. Clarke to tell the story of Pennsylvania’s lumber heyday, a time when loggers serving the needs of a rapidly growing and globalizing country forever altered the dense forests of the state’s northern tier. Discovered in a shed in upstate New York and a barn in Pennsylvania after decades of obscurity, Clarke’s photographs offer an unprecedented view of the logging, lumbering, and wood industries during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They show the great forests in the process of coming down and the trains that hauled away the felled trees and trimmed logs. And they show the workers—cruisers, jobbers, skidders, teamsters, carpenters, swampers, wood hicks, and bark peelers—their camps and workplaces, their families, their communities. The work was demanding and dangerous; the work sites and housing were unsanitary and unsavory. The changes the newly industrialized logging business wrought were immensely important to the nation’s growth at the same time that they were fantastically—and tragically—transformative of the landscape. An extraordinary look at a little-known photographer’s work and the people and industry he documented, this book reveals, in sharp detail, the history of the third phase of lumber in America.
Marven of the Great North Woods
Author: Kathryn LaskyPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152168261
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
When his Jewish parents send him to a Minnesota logging camp to escape the influenza epidemic of 1918, ten-year-old Marven finds a special friend.
Lumberjack Sky Pilot
Author: Frank A. ReedPublisher: North Country Books Incorporated
ISBN: 9780925168818
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Originally published in 1965 as the initial book pub- lished by North Country Books. Rev. Frank A. Reed lived and worked in lumber camps for many years.
Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods
Author: William Thomas CoxPublisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780343384692
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Last of the Giants
Author: Harry Rimmer, LL.D.Publisher: Aneko Press
ISBN: 1622452992
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
In its early years, Duluth was a gold mine for lumber barons. Men were employed as lumberjacks and worked like beasts, only to be tossed aside like used equipment when no longer needed. The grand forests were raped for their prime timber, the balance burned wastefully. The men were coarse and hard, but they had to be to survive. More than any other people that ever lived in our land, these old-time lumberjacks could truthfully say, “No man cared for my soul.” That is, until God sent three men to the great Northwoods of our country – Frank Higgins, John Sornberger, and Al Channer. These men blazed new trails of the Spirit and founded an empire for God. They reached a sector of humanity for which no spiritual work had ever been done before, storming the Northwoods with a consuming passion for Christ. And with that passion, they also brought a heart as big as all outdoors, a love for men that burned like a flame, and a desperate desire to see these men saved.