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The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine were a group of 19th-century lumberjacks who exhibited a rare disorder of unknown origin. [1] The syndrome entails an exaggerated startle reflex [2] which may be described as an uncontrollable "jump." Individuals with this condition could exhibit sudden movements in all parts of the body.
A lumberjack c. 1900. Lumberjack is a mostly North American term for workers in the logging industry who perform the initial harvesting and transport of trees. The term usually refers to loggers in the era before 1945 in the United States, when trees were felled using hand tools and dragged by oxen to rivers.
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Throughout the 19th century, Americans headed west in search of new land and natural resources. The timber supply in the Midwest was dwindling, forcing loggers to seek new sources of "green gold". In the early decades of the 19th century, the Great Lakes and their tributary waterways flowed through areas densely covered with virgin timber.
Lumberjacks in front of logging camp building. A logging camp (or lumber camp) is a transitory work site used in the logging industry.Before the second half of the 20th century, these camps were the primary place where lumberjacks would live and work to fell trees in a particular area.
Concern for the forests rose and created a movement towards conservation at the turn of the 19th century, leading to the creation of state and national parks (Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant Grove) and forest reserves, bringing forest land under regulation.
Felling timber using a crosscut saw in Ontario, c. 1870–1930 Upper and Lower Canada 's major industry in terms of employment and value of the product was the timber trade. [ 7 ] The largest supplier of square red and white pine to the British market originated from the Ottawa River [ 7 ] and the Ottawa Valley had "rich red and white pine ...
Calamity Jane – United States, a frontierswoman, sharpshooter, and storyteller in the American West of the late 19th century. Jigger Johnson – United States, a legendary lumberjack, trapper, and fire warden for the U.S. Forest Service who was known throughout the Eastern United States for his many exploits. [32] [33]