Logermen are people that do nothing less than building. 1785-1850. By the 1850s logers of the northeast were pouring into Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. In the mid 19th century lodging camps contained approximately 6 - 20 men. There usual dinner was pork and bean dinner was run down with rum laced beer. Some lodgers became known as the timber beasts. The colonies are timber rich. In 1722 they passed the white timber act, which stated that the white pine was reserved for the navy. Lodges had to give up half their income or they had to move east. By the late 1800s the term lumberjack has begun. Lodging was for tough men not for the weak men. In the latter half of the 1950s technology was revitalizing life. Warenhouser soon to find out success came with a price. …show more content…
Lodgers worked all day from dawn till dusk. They maybe had a little time for lunch but not that much time. 12 – 14 hour day shifts. Drinking and fighting was a popular past time for lodging camps. Lodging was hard and dangerous work but it had to get done. The life of the lumberjacks gave way to the myth of Paul Bunyan and Babe the blue ox. Lumber and saw mills before the civil war was very small. In the 1880s Warenhouser owned acres of land. For 4 long years the confederates were dissolved. In the late 1850s mill technology improved timber vital to the war era. Plywood is usually made out of Douglas fir. Timber companies reversed in the post war boom. In the Chippewa valley it was a lodgers dream. I thought this was a really good movie because it taught us about how people used to get their wood back