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History Presentation: Whistle Punks and Misery Whips: Logging the Willamette Valley, 1850 to 1960
History Presentation: Whistle Punks and Misery Whips: Logging the Willamette Valley, 1850 to 1960
This illustrated lecture by Dr. Stephen Beckham is an overview of logging and lumbering, major enterprises in the Willamette Valley. In 1850 the Oswego sawmills of Albert A. Durham and Socrates Tryon cut lumber for Portland and San Francisco. The presentation covers the evolving technology of log transportation from bull teams to logging trucks as […]
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