Oral history of logging: Josh Toineeta

Oral history of logging: Josh Toineeta

Industries

Loggers

Logging

Lumber trade

Toineeta, Joshua M., 1929-2011 -- Interviews

In this audio interview, Tom Baker interviews Josh Toineeta, a logger on the Cherokee Reservation. Toineeta talks about getting started by logging along Washington Creek. He recalls that Owen Littlejohn used a steer for logging. Toineeta’s father hauled timber from Cherry Cove before the chestnut blight. Toineeta used a boom skidder and practiced cable logging. He worked with Boyd Littlejohn and talked about the dangers of logging. This interview, along with others, was created by long-time forester, Tom Baker. Baker interviewed men who worked in the timber industry to create an oral history of logging operations in western North Carolina. Included with each interview is a transcript of the audio file.

Baker, Tom

Oral History Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

2006

Toineeta, Joshua M., 1929-2011

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

mp3; pdf;

sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

Sound

Text

22950

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/22950

2016-02-11

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Jackson County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

0:20:17 (sound recording)(dimension)

7 pages (transcript)(pages)

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