Finlander Logger Goes To Town And Is Murdered (historical article)

[slowp]

Even though it has a bad ending, this is an entertaining news story.

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[hammerlogging]

pretty classic. thanks.

 

[1270d]

My last name means pine tree in Finn. Wonder why my ancestors stopped here instead of heading to the left coast? I could be cutting tall sticks instead of stubby hardwood.

 

[treeslayer2003]

My last name means pine tree in Finn. Wonder why my ancestors stopped here instead of heading to the left coast? I could be cutting tall sticks instead of stubby hardwood.

nothing wrong with stubby hardwood, long as its pretty :msp_biggrin:

 

[imagineero]

My last name means pine tree in Finn. Wonder why my ancestors stopped here instead of heading to the left coast? I could be cutting tall sticks instead of stubby hardwood.

If you start walking now, you could get there within your lifetime. Your children would have a better future and surely than you for it

 

[Deleted member 110241]

My last name means pine tree in Finn. Wonder why my ancestors stopped here instead of heading to the left coast? I could be cutting tall sticks instead of stubby hardwood.

If your ancestors came across the pond early on, 1850 or so, they probably were happy just to have survived the trip over and was happy to settle down pretty quickly. The early journeys took very long time and the boats were packed with people and different animals...
It's hard to imagine how far away the west coast must have been back in those Days, and how big of an effort it was to make it there with your whole family and having to carry everything you owned along with you.
My parents moved west too (from Finland), but only to Sweden, the promise land wasn't that far away in the 1970's :hmm3grin2orange:

Sad story about the logger, I quess that wasn't all too uncommon way to go either.

 

[bitzer]

My last name means pine tree in Finn. Wonder why my ancestors stopped here instead of heading to the left coast? I could be cutting tall sticks instead of stubby hardwood.

Your folks probably stopped to cut the old growth pine. They cut all the big sticks- white pine 5-6ft on the stump and 200ft+ tall. A lot of em moved to the pnw after it was all gone. Some of em stayed though. I read about a cutter in the 1800s who started in Maine then moved to the pineries of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota and eventually ended up cutting in the PNW. He cut old growth wood from sea to sea just about.

 

[1270d]

There was some big pine in the area way back. They say the Kingston plains is what rebuilt Chicago. Nothing but huge stumps now. Also heard that in the sixties when the last of the big stuff was logged it was export to Saudi Arabia of all places for rail ties. Biggest white pine I've ever heard of was supposed to be high on eight feet on the stump.

Now I get pretty excited to cut a forty inch pine. Three in the past year.