Lumber Industry
La Crosse County Historical Sketches, 1931-1955
Rafting on Black River / Emil Heintz
Log Marking / A.H. Sanford
Log Scaling / A.H. Sanford
An Early Logging Contract / Albert H. Sanford
Some Economic Aspects of the Lumber Industry / Robert Fries
Life in a Lumber Camp / Frank Hartman
Log Marking and Scaling / Albert H. Sanford
Rafting in Black River / Emil Heintz
Memories of Lumbering on Black River / Charles P. Crosby
Smell of the Sawdust / Douglas Malloch
The Beginnings of a Great Industry in La Crosse / Albert H. Sanford
The Passing of the Sawmills and the Growth of Manufacturers in La Crosse / H.J. Hirshheimer
Sawmills of Onalaska, North La Crosse and La Crosse
Reminiscences of a Lumber Camp Teamster / recounted by M. Desmond
Old Man River / Mrs. Pauline Turner Funkel
The Black River Boom / Hannibal Plain
A View of the Sawyer and Austin Sawmill, 1886-1889 / A.H. Sanford
The Lumbering Industry of La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1841-1905 / Selma Sather Casberg, 1953
This 78 page master’s thesis begins with an overview of the rise lumber industry in western Wisconsin in the 19th century. The careers of influential lumber barons in the area are spotlighted. A separate chapter is devoted to Nathan Myrick, fur trader and first settler in La Crosse, and highlights his journals kept at the La Crosse Area Research Center (La Crosse Mss F). The remainder of the thesis analyzes the impact of the lumber industry on La Crosse and its eventual decline. Includes bibliography and appendix.
Lumbering on the Black River at Onalaska, Wisconsin, 1852-1902 / Dorothy Sagen Johnson, 1974.
This 45 page seminar paper was written for a University of Wisconsin - La Crosse graduate history class. The paper tracks the rise and decline of the lumber industry of lumbering along the lower Black River and describes its effect upon Onalaska, Wisconsin from 1852-1902. It includes one chapter that describes lumbering methods and logging operations. Also includes a bibliography, maps, charts, and statistics documenting the local lumber industry.
