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English
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"Wooden Beds for Wooden Heads" : Railroad Tie Cutting in the Uinta Mountains, 1867-1938
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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Spring 2016
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84
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no. 2
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Utah Historical Society
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102-117
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The article focuses on how artifacts have given historians a good source of information on the past railroad tie cutting operations in the Uinta Mountains in northeastern Utah from 1867 to 1938. Topics covered include the social history of the men, women and children who lived in logging camps, a background on the history of the tie-cutting industry and its dominance by northeastern Europeans, and the lack of period documents that showed the industry's transient labor force.