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This logging camp was not far from a place called 'Coon Tree'. It was where the Monteith family lived while the father was working in the woods on Davidson River. From L to R: Sarah Monteith (mother), Charlie Jamison (fathers cousin), Catherine…

From left to right: Oscar Monteith (father), Sarah Monteith (mother), Walter Shook, Juney Monteith (fathers brother), and Tom Jamison (fathers cousin).

Logging in the woods using oxen. From left to right: Tom Jamison (fathers cousin), Oscar Monteith (father), Walter Shook (worked for Oscar), Charlie Monteith (fathers brother) who was soon drafted into the Army.

A train crossing a trestle or bridge. The man standing by himself on far left is Oscar Monteith.

The Monteith Family with cattle. From left to right: Sarah Monteith (mother), Elise Monteith (daughter and donor of photographs), Oscar Monteith (father), Tom Jamison (cousin of Oscar), Juney Monteith (brother of Oscar) and Walter Shook.

Oscar Monteith with his herd of cattle or oxen used for logging in the woods.

This was a carpentry crew at work on a store building on Main Street in Brevard, probably about 1914. Oscar Monteith is at bottom left.

A view of two student quarters used by the Biltmore Forest School. To the left is "Little Bohemia" and to the right is "Rest for the Wicked." The path between the buildings is labeled as "Wall Street." Students are visible in the photograph.

Biltmore Forest School student Clyde "Tiny" Holmes poses with a pipe in the doorway to the student quarters, nicknamed "The Palace."

Oxen hauling bark in a sled through the forest with workers.