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A rafting trip down the Wisconsin River in 1868
Personal Experiences of a Wisconsin River Raftsman
Ceylon Childs Lincoln came to Wisconsin with his family as a boy. After serving in the Union army, Lincoln returned to Wisconsin and became a printer. In this piece, Lincoln describes his first rafting trip down the Wisconsin River in 1868, a portion of a larger work on logging in northern Wisconsin.
| Related Topics: |
Mining, Logging, and Agriculture Logging and Forest Products |
| Creator: | Lincoln, Ceylon Childs. |
| Pub Data: | Proceedings of the Wisconsin Historical Society at its 58th Annual Meeting (Madison, 1911): 181-189 |
| Citation: | Lincoln, Ceylon Childs. Personal experiences of a Wisconsin River raftsman. (Madison : State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1911). Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin at its ... annual meeting ; 58th (1910), p. 181-189; Online facsimile at: http://wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=909; Visited on: 4/25/2024 |
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