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Interview with Archie Logan, Part 4, Beltrami County Historical Society Oral History Collection, Bemidji, Minnesota

Interview with Archie Logan, Part 4, Beltrami County Historical Society Oral History Collection, Bemidji, Minnesota
Archie Logan discusses deadhead logs; where log marks were recorded; the lengths of logs; how logs were loaded on railroad cars; most prevalent species of timber; cedar yards around Kelliher; the logging railroad from Nebish to Red Lake; where logging took place in the mid-1880s; the logging railroad out of Crosslake; the narrow-gauge line at Gull Lake; smallpox in the lumber camps; quarantine in a lumber camp; and the source of the Mississippi. Leonard Dickinson is also part of the conversation. The recording is part of a series, continued from BCHS 115a, BCHS 115b, and BCHS 079a, and continued in BCHS116a and BCHS 116b.
1950 - 1959
English
BCHS079b
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