The Old West: The Loggers (1976)

by Richard Lippincott Williams

Series: Time-Life: The Old West (14)

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Provides an interesting portrait or early logging in the west. Many pictures and stories provide a history of the people and their work.

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jimbeal | Jan 26, 2024 |

Many members of my family left central Canada to move to the timber lands in the U.S. (

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ShelleyAlberta | Jun 4, 2016 |

My great-grandfather, Hiram Elmer Elsworth Lee, was a timber cruiser in the Blue Mountains of Oregon. He also drove a team of horses with a sledge. This book makes the stories of loggers come to life with many period photos. It was dangerous work. (

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The Old West: The Loggers

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1976

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Paul Bunyan

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American West

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Awhirl with the racketing activities of its booming new industry, the Albion lumber mill, on California's Mendocino County coast, typified the logging outposts that were bringing to a still-incredulous world the prodigious treasure of the Far Western forests.

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