WRITTEN SOURCES

Archival Collections

Forest History Society, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Oregon Historical Society, Portland, Oregon

Sisters of Providence Archives, Seattle, Washington

University of Washington Special Collections, Seattle, Washington —

Blake, Oscar W. “Benewah.”  Timber-r-r down the Hill.  St. Maries, Idaho, c.1967.

Ellis, Salone. The Logger.  Boston:  Small, Maynard and Co., 1924.

Emmerson, Irma Lee, with Jean Muir.  The Woods Were Full of Men.  New York:  D. McKay Co., 1963.

Felt, Margaret Elley.  The Story of a Logger, Frank D. Hobi, He Did it the Hard Way.  Bend, Oregon:  Maverick Publications, c. 1984.

_____.  Gyppo Logger.  Caldwell, Idaho:  Caxton Printers, 1963.

Grissom, Irene Welch.  Whirling Saws.  Boston:  B. Humphries, Inc., c. 1941.

Hinther, Belle Taylor.  Chicken Today, Feathers Tomorrow.  Bend, Oregon:  Maverick Publications,1985.

Jamison, Dee.  A Love Affair with Oregon.  North Bend, Oregon:  Wegferd Publications, c. 1989.

Logger’s World.  October 1964 – 1976.  Sedro Woolley, Washington:  Logging Publishers.

Markham, John H.  Seventy Years in the Northwest Forests.  Chehalis, Washington:  Logger’s World Publications, c.1977.

Washington State University Manuscripts and Archives Collection —

Interview with George L. Drake, “A Forester’s Log:  Fifty Years in the Pacific Northwest”

Oral history interview with L.T. Murray

Weyerhaeuser Archives, Tacoma, Washington

Record Group 12, Printed Material, Outside Publications —

Carlene Canton.  “Good Grub.”  Washington’s Almanac.  Evergreen Publishing Co., 1986.

Anna M. Lind.  “Women in Early Logging Camps:  A Personal Reminiscence.”  Journal of Forest History, v. 19, #3.  July 1975.

Record Group 12, Non-periodic, Box 14

Nana Lowell, Gerald M. Gillmore, Thomas Stoebe, James Souther.  “Women and Minorities in the Forest Products Industry.”  Weyerhaeuser Foundation Study, Oct. 1978.

Finley Hays.  Logger’s World:  The First Ten Years, 1964-1974.  Chehalis, Washington:  Logger’s World, Inc., 1987.

Mrs. Walker Coleman.  “Sentinel.”

Finley Hays.  “A Logger is a Logger.”

Molly Dowdle.  “Definitely My Kind of People.”

Record Group 12, Timber and Men, Box 4

Notes from articles —

Richard Harris.  “New Styles in Lumberjacks.” World’s Work Agriculture, 1928.

Walter Raleigh.  “Romance of Modern Logging.”  Popular Mechanics, Dec. 1928.

“Balanced Rations and Good Cooks Cut Costs of Camp Messes.”  Engineering News Record, Jan. 16, 1919.

Rexford G. Tugwell.  “The Casual of the Woods.”  Survey, July 3, 1920.

Robert S. Gill.  “The 4-L’s in Lumber.”  Survey, May 1, 1920.

Robert H. Moulton.  “The Modern Lumberjack.”  Outlook, August 2, 1922.

Journals

Oregon Historical Quarterly.  A search conducted through 35 years of OHQ yielded very few items that proved relevant to this project.  Findings are listed below.

• OHQ, Spring 1991: 76.  “Ruth Manary on Life at a Lincoln City Logging Camp in the 1920s.”
• OHQ, Summer 1984:  135.   John Driscoll, “Gilchrist, Oregon, A Company Town.”

Newspaper Articles

The Oregonian

• October 27, 1997.  Foster Church.  Special Report, “State’s economy passes by small town”
• September 6, 1998.  Peter Sleeth and Elisa Williams.  “A tale of two layoffs:  Workers in high tech and timber discover some painful lessons in world economics.”
• September 27, 1998.  Hal Bernton and Jonathan Brinckman.  “Timber industry struggles to maintain its harvests:  Forced from public lands, loggers face tough challenges on private tracts.”
• January 9, 1998.  Gerry Frank.  “Stevenson family quietly leaves imprint on region.”

Books and Journal Articles

• Barber, Olive.  The Lady and the Lumberjack.  NY:  Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1952.
• Barnes, Kim.  In the Wilderness:  Coming of Age in an Unknown Country.  NY:  Anchor Books-Doubleday, 1996.
• Becker, Howard S.  “The Professional Dance Musician and His Audience.”  American Journal of Sociology, v. LVII, #137, 1951.
• Becker, Howard S. and James Carper.  “The Elements of Identity with an Occupation.”  American Sociological Review, v. 21, #3, June 1956.
• _____.  “Careers, Personality, and Adult Socialization.”  American Journal of Sociology, v. 62, 1967.
• Brown, Beverly A.  In Timber Country:  Working People’s Stories of Environmental Conflict and Urban Flight.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 1995.
• Carroll, Matthew S.  Community and the Northwestern Logger:  Continuities and Changes in the Era of the Spotted Owl.  Boulder:  Westview Press, 1995.
• Chase, Alston.  In a Dark Wood:  The Fight Over Forests and the Rising Tyranny of Ecology.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
• Churchill, Sam.  Big Sam.  Portland:  Binford and Mort, 1965.
• Colfer, J. Pierce and A. Michael Colfer.  “Inside Buschler Bay:  Lifeways in Counterpoint.”  Rural Sociology, v. 43, #2, Summer 1978.
• Davis, Dona Lee.  “Occupational Community and Fishermen’s Wives in a Newfoundland Fishing Village.”  Anthropological Quarterly, v. 59, #3, July 1986.
• Drushka, Ken.  Working in the Woods:  A History of Logging on the West Coast.  Madiera Park, B.C. Canada:  Harbour Publishing, 1992.
• Ficken, Robert E.  This Forested Land:  A History of Lumbering in Western Washington.  Seattle:  University of Washington Press, 1987.
• Hays, Finley.  Lies Logs and Loggers.  Your Town Press, 1961.
• Heilbrun, Carolyn G.  Writing a Woman’s Life.  NY:  W.W. Norton and Co., 1988.
• Hidy, Ralph, Frank Ernest Hill, and Allan Nevins.  Timber and Men:  The Weyerhaeuser Story.  NY:  MacMillan Co., 1963.
• Hirt, Paul W.  A Conspiracy of Optimism:  Management of the National Forests Since World War II.  Lincoln:  University of Nebraska Press, 1994.
• Langston, Nancy.  Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares:  The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West.  Seattle:  University of Washington Press, 1995.
• Peterson, Keith C.  Company Town:  Potlatch, Idaho, and the Potlatch Lumber Company.  Pullman, WA:  Washington State University Press, 1987.
• Prouty, Andrew Mason.  More Deadly Than War:  Pacific Coast Logging, 1827-1981.  NY:  Garland Publishing, 1985.
• Robbins, William G.  Hard Times in Paradise:  Coos Bay, Oregon, 1850-1986.  Seattle:  University of Washington Press, 1988.
• Roberge, Earl.  Timber Country.  Caldwell, ID:  Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1973.
• Salaman, Graeme.  Community and Occupation:  An Exploration of Work/Leisure Relationships.  London:  Cambridge University Press, 1974.
• Schwantes, Carlos A.  Hard Traveling:  A Portrait of Work Life in the New Northwest.  Lincoln:  University of Nebraska Press, 1994.
• _____  The Pacific Northwest:  An Interpretive History.  Lincoln:  University of Nebraska Press, 1996.
• Van Maanen, John and Stephen R. Barley.  “Occupational Communities:  Culture and Control in Organizations.”  Research in Organizational Behavior, v. 6, 1984.

Theses and Dissertations

• Warren, Kristen K.  “Role-Making and Coping Strategies Among Women in Timber Dependent Communities.”  M.A. Thesis.  University of Washington, Seattle, 1992.
• Williamson, David H.  “Give ‘er Snoose:  A Study of Kin and Work Among Gyppo Loggers of the Pacific Northwest.”  Ph.D. Dissertation.  Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., 1976.