Dale Lyon's tug boat working in a river of logs.
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Dale Lyon’s tug boat surrounded by a sea of logs on Coeur d’Alene River. Logs were dumped into a large river or lake where a log boom contained them to be towed to the mill. Courtesy of The Museum of North Idaho.
This file appears in: The River Pigs of Logging
The River Pigs of Logging
The River Pigs of Logging
The remote virgin forests of northern Idaho represented a fortune in timber--if it could be brought to market. In areas not immediately adjacent to a railroad, the fast-moving rivers offered an economical way to get…