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Glory Days of Logging
The reissue of this classic history allows us to once again journey into the past and rediscover for the first time the forgotten men and methods of logging history in the Northwest United States and Canada. This book contain the best photographs of a dozen famous collections: Davis and Benson rafts, river drives, hand logging spar topping big wheels in the pine, saw mills of 1890 to 1915, historical ox teams, tractors, blumes. In this chronicle of the Big Woods, bunk house ballads, humorous sketches and eyewitness accounts of work and life in the tall uncut as well as the rich photographs help the reader to actually feel the old logging atmosphere.
176 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1994
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August 23, 2026If you're looking for old photographs of logging in the Pacific Northwest, you've found it! Glory Days of Logging follows Andrews' previous publication, This Was Logging, which is also a collection of logging photos. The books contain different photos.
This Was Logging focuses on the photographer Darius Kinsey. Therefore, some photos unrelated to logging are included. The text is rather a pain to follow because it's all chopped up to fit around the photos, so you start a column, and then it continues on some later page. You start another column, and it continues elsewhere as well. And so on. The majority of the text in This Was Logging is about the photographer, so you learn how he became focused on photographing loggers. Text attached to each photo includes whatever information happened to be available.
Glory Days of Logging includes Kinsey photographs, but it also contains photographs from universities and regional archives. Glory Days is divided regionally by photographs (with some crossover). The text is all focused on logging, explaining various methods used and showing technology changing over time or by region. Text is also made of excerpts from first-person accounts on logging as well as songs and other snippets of primary accounts.
If you're interested in or researching historical logging practices in the Pacific Northwest, both books are ideal collections of photos.
This Was Logging focuses on the photographer Darius Kinsey. Therefore, some photos unrelated to logging are included. The text is rather a pain to follow because it's all chopped up to fit around the photos, so you start a column, and then it continues on some later page. You start another column, and it continues elsewhere as well. And so on. The majority of the text in This Was Logging is about the photographer, so you learn how he became focused on photographing loggers. Text attached to each photo includes whatever information happened to be available.
Glory Days of Logging includes Kinsey photographs, but it also contains photographs from universities and regional archives. Glory Days is divided regionally by photographs (with some crossover). The text is all focused on logging, explaining various methods used and showing technology changing over time or by region. Text is also made of excerpts from first-person accounts on logging as well as songs and other snippets of primary accounts.
If you're interested in or researching historical logging practices in the Pacific Northwest, both books are ideal collections of photos.
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