All posts tagged "lumber camp"
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17.9K1MaineThe Jumping Frenchmen of Maine Lumber Camps
In 1880, Dr. George Miller Beard boarded a train for Moosehead Lake in Maine to see for himself the strange lumberjacks known...
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10.0K10New HampshireNew Hampshire Timber Baron Takes the Money and Runs
In 1892,timber baron James E. Henry bought 100,000 acres of virgin timber in Northern New Hampshire and began clear-cutting the White Mountains....
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