ROBERTS AND RIGGS LOGGING IN WV MOUNTAINS

(04/04/2026)

James Roberts and Lester Riggs Hur-Joker men joined hundreds of Calhoun men in the early 1900s to take off to the logging boom in the mountains of West Virginia, mostly in Nicholas and Webster County. Courtesy of Denver Roberts

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