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Pop told me about working in the loggin industry in the Missippi delta around the turn of the century. I don't have any pictures
that he took at that time, but the following images mirror what he told me about life at that time.
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This giant cypress tree is 2700 years old.
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I don't know the age of this giant cypress, but it appears to be as old as the tree above.
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These oxen are rigged to pull wagons with logs slung under them to pull the logs through mud sloughs in the swamp to the rail
head.
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This is a typical saw mill from the 1900 era.
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Logs being loaded on the flat car at the rail head.
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Logs waiting to be loaded on the flat cars.
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