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Chapter 1
Who Are These People?
RONNIE ROBERTS
LUTHER PIERCE
Chapter 2
The Migration
No interview cited in this chapter
Chapter 3
The Clans in the Hills
LORENZ BADING
Chapter 4
The Early Twentieth Century
ALBERT BOATRIGHT
JOHN T BOATRIGHT with MARY BOATRIGHT
FLOYD CANTWELL
BETTY HENRY
RALEY & WALLACE with HAGOOD
BOB WILLESS
ALICE PATTERSON OESTRICK
Margie Carlton Simons, Preston Carlton, and Princeton Simons
Chapter 5
Cedar and Survival
STANLEY ALLEN
BARNEY BAKER
MORRIS BONNET
LEE CANTRELL
JOHN HOOVER
CHARLIE MAUGHAM
GUTHRIE O'DONNELL
STONEY TEAGUE
Chapter 6
Fencing the West
KENNETH BERTLING
LEE McKINNERNEY
TM PEARSON
SIMON RATLIFF
DICK TURNER
Chapter 7
The Life of a Cedar Chopper
DON HIBBITTS
GENNY KERCHEVILLE
MILTON LENTZ
KERRY RUSSELL
EARLEEN SIMONS
Chapter 8
So Close, Yet So Far Away
No interview cited in this chapter
Chapter 9
The Demise of the Cedar Choppers
PETE KAUFMAN
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*not quoted in book
KEN AULT*
RAYMOND MOORE*
Additional Audio
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Loretta Guest Pirson
is the daughter of Cleo Victor Guest and Thelma Mae Boatright. His parents were John Wesley Guest and Ida Mae Shannon, and hers Dick Boatright and Carrie Mae Williams.
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