This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
The Saga of the Cedar Cutter
A veteran cedarcutter recalls the cedar brakes of Texas, the lives of cedar cutters, and the vanished era of virgin brakes. It traces the trade, its clans, and the decline of a way of life tied to posts, timber, and frontier identity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. W. Wimberley
Cedars
Cedar Mountain
Craigs
Grif Lucas
Cedar Brake
Colorado
Falls Creek
Grif
Crane’s Bluff
Griff
Great Plains
Progentor
Texana
Texas
Canadian
Mississippi
Rockies