Several sessions at the 1996 SHA meetings dealt with logging/lumber camps. Paper
s
included:
Douglas Birk "Outta the Woods and Onto the Mills: Shifting Timber Harvest Strate
gies on Minnestoa's Lumbering Frontiers, 1820-1900"
Jill Ferrone et al. Logging Landscapes of the late 19th Century: A Case study fr
om MI Western Upper Peninsula."
Mark Branster "The Carp River Sawmill Company: A Pre-Civil War Settlement on tyh
e South Shore of Lake Superior"
John Franzen "Comfort for Man or Beast: Alcohol and Medicine Use in Northern MI
Logging Camps ca. 1880-1940"
Dean Anderson and Patrick Murphy- "Learning about Logging: Bringing the History
of Michigan Lumbering to the public."
The SHA directory will have these people's addresses