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MOVING HISTORY FORWARD: Lumberjanes of North Idaho take New York

by DEBORAH A. MITCHELL/Museum of North Idaho
| March 10, 2023 1:00 AM

March is Women’s History Month and the Museum of North Idaho would like to recognize two women that put North Idaho on the map in 1935.

After claiming the “world championship” title in a log-sawing and chopping competition, two Rose Lake High School seniors gained fame when newspaper headlines around the nation began referring to them as the “lumberjanes from the Coeur d’Alene Mountains...

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