more lady loggers and less work

[Terrance]

Last thing a timber town needs is girls comin out wit us in the woods
tryin to do a man's job. Hell, there ain't enough work for us men. 

What can logger do for WORK when he can't log no more? 

What do you do? 

What are you? 

Um, well, I used to be ....  I was ah, um, well, I .... hell, I don't
even recognize my own self no more ... what they hell happened? this
used to be a timber town. It's like some Japanese monster ate Paul
Bunyan and Bigfoot for breakfast, cut us off at the knees and bit off
are arms. No wonder two-thirds of this town is collecting disability and
cutting grass like a bunch a Mexicans. 


WOMEN AND TIMBER

The Pacific Northwest Logging Community, 1920 - 1998

This project pursued the forgotten histories of the mothers, wives,
sisters, and daughters of Pacific  Northwest loggers from 1920 to 1997,
primarily through oral history interviews.

http://www.ccrh.org/oral/women&timber/




Robert E. Walls 

Lady Loggers and Gyppo Wives: Women and Northwest Logging, by Robert E.
Walls

For the first eighty years of the twentieth century, the timber industry
fueled the economy of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. The historical
record from that period of lumbering and manufacturing, both written and
visual, generally portrays a world of men boldly “taming the
timberbeast.” Recently, historians have begun to draw attention to the
presence of women in timber communities and the significance of their
work. In this
photo essay, Robert Walls focuses on women’s roles in smaller,
independent gyppo logging operations  from the 1940s through today.
Through period photographs, oral history, and written records, Walls
uncovers the history of women who worked alongside the men at a variety
of jobs in the woods, the lumber camps, and the mills.
                     



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