Forest History Society (A) project : oral history, 1957.

Scope and Contents

These interviews on forestry and logging contain material on conservation, woods safety, fire-fighting and the development of protective associations, old Minnesota logging camps, logging methods and machinery, and the development of the Paul Bunyan legends. Impresssions of H. L. Mencken are included, as are impressions of George S. Long and other lumbermen. Participants and pagination: Charles S. Cowan, 54; George W. Dulany, 37; Inman F. Eldredge, 12; Royal S. Kellogg, 55; Donald MacKenzie, 17; Maggie Orr O'Neill, 19; P. J. Rutledge, 10; James Stevens, 33.

Subjects

• Conservation of natural resources.
• Forest fires--Prevention and control.
• Forest protection.
• Forests and forestry.
• Interviews.
• Logging--Machinery.
• Long, George S.
• Lumber trade.
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956.
• Oral histories.

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