Logging meant always pushing outward into the wilderness. Remote logging camps were set up near the work areas, and were home for loggers and camp workers for months at a time. Camps could be large or small, popping up for just a season, or active for a decade or more.
This kitchen crew is hard at work; keeping the loggers fed was serious business. Women were not uncommon in the camps, especially as the century progressed. In larger camps loggers might even bring their families, and when they went to work their wives had their own jobs back "home" at camp.
Few sights were as welcome as the mess hall at the end of a long day in the woods.
Supplied by rail and needing fresh water, camp was almost always a landing for timber as well as a place to live. Camps that weren't built near a waterway could still get timber by steam donkey, and then load it onto a train or truck.
