Love the spring boards, shamus! Haven't had a chance to find that book of Northern Ca. logging I was talking about...I'll see what kind of photos I can find elsewhere. I live not far from what was once the greatest stand of the largest trees to ever live on the planet..the 'Big Bend' of the Russian River at what is now 'Guerneville, Ca. If I can find a little book called "Out of the River Mists", which is one forester's account, with period photos, of the logging of the Big Trees there, from the 1860's until the thirties or so,I'll send it to you.
I have no idea what happened to my copy.
Later
VGN