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East Texas sawmill, circa 1911
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East Texas sawmill, circa 1900 or 1911; Scene shows six yokes of oxen and a plentiful supply of Piney Woods Rooter hogs (now very rare or extinct). Oxen were used to drag or haul logs out to tracks to be taken to the mill.
Author
Exxon microfilm, 438;
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3556*2665
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1332 KB
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1910s, sawmill
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