1. 1 For more information on the industry in Wyoming, see Robert G. Rosenberg, “Woodrock Tie Hack District, Bighorn National Forest Cultural Resource Management Plan,” Prepared for Bighorn National Forest, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1999, 9-10; Joan Trego Pinkerton, Knights of the Broadax: The Story of the Wyoming Tie Hacks (Caldwell, ID: Caxton Publishers, 1981); William Wroten, “The Railroad Tie Industry in the Central Rocky Mountain Region, 1867-1900” (Ph.D. diss., University of Colorado Boulder, 1956).
2. 2 Sherry Olsen, Depletion Myth: A History of Railroad Use of Timber (Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1971), 23.
3. 3 L. J. Colton, “Early Day Timber Cutting Along the Upper Bear River,” Utah Historical Quarterly 35 (Summer 1967): 202-7; Thomas G. Alexander, The Rise of Multiple-Use Management in the Intermountain West: A History of Region 4 of the Forest Service, FS-399 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Forest Service, May 1987).
4. 4 For information on the West’s transient laborers, see Carlos Schwantes, “The Concept of the Wageworkers’ Frontier: A Framework for Future Research,” Western Historical Quarterly 18 (1987): 39-55.
5. 5 There are no known company records for the Standard Timber Company, the largest timber firm on the North Slope between 1912 and the 1940s. In 1940, an accidental fire in a Standard Timber barn in Millis, Wyoming, destroyed much of the company records. Ogden Standard-Examiner, June 21, 1940, 9.