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Author:

Weirather, Larry, 1944- 490849

Title:

Never outta the woods : logging on the Upper Mississippi, 1940s-1980s / Larry Weirather.

Publisher:

CreateSpace?,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

viii, 276 p. : ill., maps, ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Helle Lumber Company (Savanna, Ill.)
Logging--Mississippi River Valley--History.
Lumbering--Illinois--History.
Sawmills--Savanna--Savanna--History.

Contents:

Introduction -- Preliminary cuttings -- Don't call my name: making the cut -- The men -- Green Island -- Marcus -- Wolf Timber -- Tom and Huck go a raftin' on the Mississippi with chainsaws -- Savanna's dark satanic mill -- Powerama, our proudest moment -- How to go broke logging -- Riding in a logging truck -- Living in the house of a logger -- Eppy-log.

Summary:

This humorous, non-fiction account follows the rise, fall, and foibles of the lumber company that floated the last raft of logs down the Mississippi in mid-twentieth century. Helle Lumber Company of Savanna, Illinois enjoyed a cast of Midwestern "characters" and classic American entrepreneurial misadventures. The book captures a time when chainsaws and other inventions changed a way of life during the logging of the great Mississippi bottoms.

ISBN:

9781434841803
1434841804

OCLC:

(OCoLC)225902409

Locations:

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)