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In the middle of the 19th century, loggers would need to transport hundreds of thousands of logs from the deep forests to mills. These mills were often located hundreds of miles away. It was a time before cars and a time when transporting these large amounts of lumber, the full distance, via horse drawn carts or wagons was next to impossible. To transport the logs to the mills, the loggers would toss the logs in the river and let them float down stream to the mill, also known as a “river drive”.

During these river drives logs would often get jammed up, due to a bend in the river or just by slowing getting caught on other obstacles in the river. After a while it would become necessary to purge the problem area of the jam to allow for the logs to flow freely down stream again. To do so, loggers would locate the "key log" which held all of the others back and would clear the jam with dynamite, sacrificing a few choice pieces of timber in order to allow the rest to flow down river freely. If it weren't for the dynamiting of a few key logs, no logs would make it to the mill, and the entire river drive would simply rot away over time.