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When the white pine was king : a history of lumberjacks, log drives, and sawdust cities in Wisconsin / Jerry Apps.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Apps, Jerry, 1934- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Logging--Wisconsin.
- Logging.
- Loggers--Wisconsin.
- Loggers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wisconsin : Wisconsin Historical Society Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "This is the story of the logging era in Wisconsin, of lumberjacks and camp cooks, of log drives and log jams, of sawmills and lumber barons and the echo of the ax in the Northwoods as yet another white pine tree fell to the ground. Jerry also walks readers through the aftermath of the logging era, including efforts to farm the cutover, reforestation work, and the legacy of the state's lumber and wood products industry"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Before the loggers arrived
- The logging boom
- Setting up camp and crew
- The lumberjack's life
- From forest to sawmill
- Logging and lumber leaders
- Life in a sawmill town
- Growth, change, and the end of the era
- The plow followed the ax
- Reforestation efforts.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-87020-935-3
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