Author: Diana L. Peterson
Publisher: 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.
Logging in Wisconsin
Author: Diana L. Peterson
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
When the White Pine Was King
Author: Jerry Apps
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870209353
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
“From the ring of the ax in the woods, to the scream of the saw blade in the mill, to the founding of many of Wisconsin’s communities, Jerry Apps does an outstanding job bringing Wisconsin’s logging and lumbering heritage to life.”—Kerry P. Bloedorn, director, Rhinelander Pioneer Park Historical Complex For more than half a century, logging, lumber production, and affiliated enterprises in Wisconsin’s Northwoods provided jobs for tens of thousands of Wisconsinites and wealth for many individuals. The industry cut through the lives of nearly every Wisconsin citizen, from an immigrant lumberjack or camp cook in the Chippewa Valley to a Suamico sawmill operator, an Oshkosh factory worker to a Milwaukee banker. When the White Pine Was King tells the stories of the heyday of logging: of lumberjacks and camp cooks, of river drives and deadly log jams, of sawmills and lumber towns and the echo of the ax ringing through the Northwoods as yet another white pine crashed to the ground. He explores the aftermath of the logging era, including efforts to farm the cutover (most of them doomed to fail), successful reforestation work, and the legacy of the lumber and wood products industries, which continue to fuel the state’s economy. Enhanced with dozens of historic photos, When the White Pine Was King transports readers to the lumber boom era and reveals how the lessons learned in the vast northern forestlands continue to shape the region today.
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870209353
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
“From the ring of the ax in the woods, to the scream of the saw blade in the mill, to the founding of many of Wisconsin’s communities, Jerry Apps does an outstanding job bringing Wisconsin’s logging and lumbering heritage to life.”—Kerry P. Bloedorn, director, Rhinelander Pioneer Park Historical Complex For more than half a century, logging, lumber production, and affiliated enterprises in Wisconsin’s Northwoods provided jobs for tens of thousands of Wisconsinites and wealth for many individuals. The industry cut through the lives of nearly every Wisconsin citizen, from an immigrant lumberjack or camp cook in the Chippewa Valley to a Suamico sawmill operator, an Oshkosh factory worker to a Milwaukee banker. When the White Pine Was King tells the stories of the heyday of logging: of lumberjacks and camp cooks, of river drives and deadly log jams, of sawmills and lumber towns and the echo of the ax ringing through the Northwoods as yet another white pine crashed to the ground. He explores the aftermath of the logging era, including efforts to farm the cutover (most of them doomed to fail), successful reforestation work, and the legacy of the lumber and wood products industries, which continue to fuel the state’s economy. Enhanced with dozens of historic photos, When the White Pine Was King transports readers to the lumber boom era and reveals how the lessons learned in the vast northern forestlands continue to shape the region today.
Wisconsin Logging Camp 1921
Author: James Bastian
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781934553541
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Wisconsin Logging Camp 1921. A beautifully written historical fiction novel by James Bastian set primarily in the north woods of Wisconsin during 1920-1921.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781934553541
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Wisconsin Logging Camp 1921. A beautifully written historical fiction novel by James Bastian set primarily in the north woods of Wisconsin during 1920-1921.
Logging in Wisconsin
Author: Diana L. Peterson and Carrie M. Ronnander
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467125326
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
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. 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.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467125326
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
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. 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 Timber Industry
Author: James E. Blyth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest products industry
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest products industry
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Beyond the Trees
Author: Candice Gaukel Andrews
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 087020467X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 087020467X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.
Empire in Pine
Author: Robert F. Fries
Publisher: Sister Bay, Wis. : Wm. Caxton
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher: Sister Bay, Wis. : Wm. Caxton
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Will to Live
Author: Gary Edinger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781931291811
Category : Amputees
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781931291811
Category : Amputees
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Lumbermen on the Chippewa
Author: Malcolm Leviatt Rosholt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780910417006
Category : Loggers
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780910417006
Category : Loggers
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Cut and Run
Author: Mike Monte
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764315299
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An unprecedented rape of Mother Nature from the 1880s to the 1940s completely changed the wooded landscape in the northern Great Lakes region of America as well as the society and ecology forevermore. This fascinating book presents true-life photographic images of the lumberjacks and river pigs who began the work, railroad loggers who extended the range and types of logs available, and a close-up look at one town in the wilderness. With hard work written across their faces, these men and women earn the respect of today's readers and became legendary.
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764315299
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An unprecedented rape of Mother Nature from the 1880s to the 1940s completely changed the wooded landscape in the northern Great Lakes region of America as well as the society and ecology forevermore. This fascinating book presents true-life photographic images of the lumberjacks and river pigs who began the work, railroad loggers who extended the range and types of logs available, and a close-up look at one town in the wilderness. With hard work written across their faces, these men and women earn the respect of today's readers and became legendary.