Rivermen work on a log drive at Beecher Falls, Vt., at the north end of the Connecticut River in this photo, circa 1900. Vermont Historical Society The news shot through the North Country faster than ...
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Although railroads and trucks had made the log drive an anachron­ism by 1949, when this story first ran, the method was still used. In the summer and winter in Idaho’s panhandle, lumberjacks floated ...
The story of Idaho’s Clearwater River Log Drive and what caused it to abruptly end. For over forty years, the North Fork of the Clearwater River would be crammed with logs. The timber was destined for ...