Item #2329249 In Search of Steam Donkeys: Logging Equipment in Oregon. Merv Johnson.

In Search of Steam Donkeys: Logging Equipment in Oregon

Hillsboro, Oregon: Timber Times, 2002. 2nd Printing. Large Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #2329249
ISBN: 9780965021302

Second printing. A fine copy in a near fine jacket.

280 pp. To the people who used them, steam donkeys and other logging equipment made their livelihoods possible. From its beginnings in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to its heyday in the twenties and thirties, to its decline and extinction in the 1950s, steam logging captured the imaginations and hearts of generations of Oregonians. In Search of Steam Donkeys traces the development of the machinery that made steam logging possible-and sometimes dangerous, sometimes lucrative. It describes the surprisingly creative methods that old-time loggers used, modified (and sometimes misused) the equipment they worked with daily; the sometimes funny, frequently poignant, tales of living and growing up in a logging camp; the reminiscences of those who still remember working as whistle punks, riggers, donkey doctors, and hooktenders.

Price: $100.00