Special Collections Subject Guide: Lumber Industry

Lumber Industry

This is a guide to selected resources concerning Logging and Lumbering History in Maine that are located in the Special Collections Department or are available on the Internet.

Bibliographies:

  • Committee for a New England Bibliography. Maine, a Bibliography of its History. Boston : G. K. Hall, 1977.  Maine Z 1291 C65 1977
  • Smith, David C. Lumbering and the Maine Woods: a Bibliographical Guide. Portland: Maine Historical Society, 1971.  Maine Z 7914 L8 S4

Biographies:

  • Averill, Gerald. Ridge Runner; The Story of a Maine Woodsman. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Co. 1948.  Maine F 25 A8
  • Eckstorm, Fannie H. David Libbey : Penobscot Woodman and River-driver. Boston : Beacon Press, 1907.  Maine 974.196 L614xe
  • Farrington, Ervin S. A Lumberjack at 13. Center Conway, N.H.: Walker’s Pond Press & Advertising Company, 1982.  Maine HD 8039 L92 U54 1982
  • Holbrook, Stewart Hall. Yankee Loggers: A Recollection of Woodsmen, Cooks, and River Drivers. New York: International Paper Company, 1961.  Maine SD 538.2 N35 H574
  • Smith, Robert. My life in the North Woods. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986.  Maine CT 275 S5493 A3 1986

History – General:

  • Chaney, Michael P. White Pine on the Saco River : An Oral History of River Driving in Southern Maine. Orono, Me.: Maine Folklife Center, 1993.  Maine GR 1 N65 v. 29
  • Holbrook, Stewart Hall. Holy Old Mackinaw; A Natural History of the American Lumberjack. New York, Macmillan, 1956.  Maine SD 538.2 A1 H57
  • Judd, Richard W. Aroostook : A Century Of Logging In Northern Maine. Orono, Me. : University of Maine Press, 1988, c1989.  Maine HD 9757 M2 J83 1988
  • Smith, David C. A History of Lumbering in Maine, 1861-1960. Orono, University of Maine Press, 1972.  Maine SD 538.2 M2 S57
  • Springer, John S. Forest Life and Forest Trees: Comprising Winter Camp-life Among the Loggers, and Wild-wood Adventure. With Descriptions of Lumbering Operations on the Various Rivers of Maine and New Brunswick. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851.  Maine F 24 S76
  • Stanley, Robert Dana. The Rise of the Penobscot Lumber Industry to 1860. Orono: University of Maine, 1963.  Univ 1958 St25
  • “Suthin” (It’s the Opposite of Nothin’) : An Oral History of Grover Morrison’s Woods Operation at Little Musquash Lake, 1945-1947.  Orono, Me.: Northeast Folklore Society, 1978.  Maine GR 1 N65 vol. 18
  • Wood, Richard George. A History of Lumbering in Maine: 1820-1861. Orono: University of Maine Press, 1971.  Maine HD 9757 M2 W6 1971

History – Pulp & Paper Industry:

  • A history of S. D. Warren Company 1854-1954. Westbrook, Me. : the Company, 1954, c1955.  Maine TS 1096 W3 A3 l954

History – Railroads:

  • Chase, Edward E. Maine railroads : a history of the development of the Maine railroad system. Portland, Me. : A. J. Huston, c1926.  Maine HE 2771 M2 C5

Folklore and Ballads:

  • Barry, Phillips. The Maine Woods Songster.  Cambridge, Mass.: Powell Printing, 1939.
    Maine 784.4 B279
  • Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy. Minstrelsy of Maine; Folk-songs and Ballads of the Woods and the Coast. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927.  Maine PS 548 M2 E4
  • Gray, Roland Palmer. Songs and Ballads of the Maine Lumberjacks: with Other Songs from Maine. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1924.  Maine 811.08 G79
  • Ives, Edward D. Joe Scott, the Woodsman-songmaker. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978.  Maine ML 410 S4364 I9
  • Ives, Edward D. Larry Gorman: the man who made the songs. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1964.  Maine ML 410 G645 I9

Fiction:

  • Bartlett, Stanley Foss. Beyond the Sowdyhunk. Portland, Me. : Falmouth Book House, 1937.  Maine 813.5 B284
  • Day, Holman. King Spruce. New York ; London : Harper & brothers, 1908.  Maine 813.49 D331k
  • Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy. The Penobscot Man. Somersworth, New Hampshire Pub. Co., 1972.  Maine PS 3509 C65 P4 1972
  • Williams, Ben Ames. The Strange Woman. Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, 1941.  Maine PS 3545 I5115 S85

Maine State Documents:

  • Maine. Dept. of Labor and Industry. Working Conditions in Lumber and Pulpwood Camps, August 1955 – March 1956. Augusta, Me. : 1956.  St.Docs. L 12.10:W89/956
  • Maine. Legislature. Legislative Research Committee. Laws of Maine. 1820 – .  St. Docs. L 38.22
  • Maine. Legislature. Legislative Documents. 1837- .  St. Docs. L 40.13
  • Maine. Legislature.Public documents. 1867-1954.  St. Docs. L 40.25

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