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: Logging on the River
The River Pigs of Logging: Logging on the River
Logging Companies used rivers and lakes to move logs from the logging camps to the mills. The brave men that guided the logs on the journey were called the River Pigs.