Steam in the Redwoods

Fascinating and detailed look at over 25 narrow gauge logging railroads that once ran through the redwood forest of northern California. The text brings the logging camps, the screech of the sawmills and vitality of the industry back to life. Illustrated throughout with vintage black and white photos of the trains as well as the camps and scenery around them. With rosters of the steam locomotives (by company) and maps. Includes bibliography. 224 pages.

Politics & Social Sciences

Carranco, Lynwood

Sorensen, Henry L.

Social Sciences

Caxton Pr

Book by Carranco, Lynwood;Sorensen, Henry L.

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Caxton Printers+ltd

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressThe giant redwood trees are one of California’s best known attractions. Thousands of tourists visit the Northern California groves each year. The story of the California redwood lumber industry also tells the stories of the men, the trains, and the land.
This book is dedicated to the pioneer lumbermen who succeeded in launching careers as mill men by overcoming the tremendous obstacle of moving the giant redwoods from the woods to the mill, by inventing equipment strong enough to handle the gigantic logs, and by finding suitable markets for their lumber throughout the Pacific area; and to Augustus William Ericson and the other early photographers who preserved the early history of logging in pictures.

Logging the Redwoods

Business & Money

Labbe, John T.

Industries

Caxton Press

Fascinating and thorough look at the redwood logging industry, from the earliest days of individual wildcatters whose employees felled the trees with axes through the days of well-funded capitalists whose employees used chain saws, steam donkeys, high leads and tractors and then to corporations whose employees are attempting to revive the industry through genetic research and reforestation. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos and numerous maps. Includes bibliography. Decorative end papers show map of the Redwood Empire in northern California. 218 pages wth index.

Redwood Lumber Industry

Golden West Books

This book is a collection of articles on the Redwood Country that have appeared in profesisonal journals in the last twenty-five years researching the history of both California's Humboldt and Mendocino Counties.

Redwood Country

History

Americas

Star Pub Co

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