LOG DRIVE ON THE CONNECTICUT A native of northern Vermont, ROBERT E. PIKE has been a farmer, a lumberjack, a surveyor, an American army officer, a professor of ancient and modern languages, and a ...
Although railroads and trucks had made the log drive an anachron­ism by 1949, when this story first ran, the method was still used. In the summer and winter in Idaho’s panhandle, lumberjacks floated ...
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An examination of Maine's log drive, wood harvesting and paper-making legacy. Log drives down Maine rivers were once a common sight but the last such drive in America occurred here in 1976, which is ...
They say that in the old days lumbering was wasteful; the lumbermen would fell a tree and perhaps take only one good log out of the middle, leaving the other two to rot. Today, the red-shirted, ...