The Logger's Daughter | Oregon Experience 

Took great courage to come to a state like Oregon was at that time.

Gwen is so right: history is important. Thank you for sharing her discoveries.

Nicely done documentary.

My grandfather was a dentist who went up to the mountains in N.C. to treat the loggers. My brother still has the red velvet covered dentist's chair grandad took up there. When he died just before WWII a lot of his rich clients down in Greenville refused to pay their bill. One farmer took produce to my grandmother for 40years. Grandad treated his wife despite her having diphtheria.

It’s sad to hear some of the references and names used towards the black population. All the more reason this kind of history needs to be taught. 😁

I agree. We need a part 2. I just love this history. Thank you Gwen for your creation.

OPB should do an update on this story... I believe this property was bought to restore/preserve the history and Gwen opened up a museum.

This story evoked very deep emotional joy within my heart that actually drew tears. This should be shown in all schools as an example of what was and is in most communities. Inner city experience are very different than suburban and rural experience even to this day... and I'm glad this movie was made to show that.

Oregon was "nice for work, but it was no place for pleasure." I got a real cick out of this statement and I think I kind of agree with him!🤣

Why not teach more of these stories in school? Black Americans were a big part of the West. Black Bart, and the doctor in Laura Ingalls Wilder's stories are two that come to mind.

Thank you for this video. Really interesting!!!

Thanks for this one, a great story by a beautiful storyteller.

Excellent documentary!

Thank you Gwen for doing this.....

Wonderful!

12:12 kudos to her for not slapping the hell out of that lady for saying what she said This is a great story. Thanks for posting it.

That was GREAT!

Wonderful it’s refreshing to hear a good story instead of all the violence and hatred in the news now days. This made me cry. I only wish a sense of community would come back to this country like it used to be in areas no one expected it to be Thank You for sharing and posting a feel good story.

Great video, thank you. My daddy was a logger in Oregon during the 50-60s. I have his logging hat.😃

This was wonderful. Absolutely loved it! ❤

Thank you so much for sharing.

Very interesting! What a hard life they had. The elderly lady at the end had such a cute smile.

Wonderful story...I thoroughly enjoyed it.

What a great episode. Absolutely loved it. Thank you.

I love history. I especially love learning about people, places and events that I have never heard of before. Kudos to Gwen for not only wanting to preserve her family history, but doing so for many others as well. You never know Gods plans when you set out on a journey. He always makes things better than you could have imagined. Blessings to Gwen and the people of Promise. Those still alive and those long gone on to their rewards.❤❤🇺🇸

Just a lovely documentary !

This was an absolutely beautiful human story. Thank you

What a story...thanks for recording the people before they're gone!

I love this story

I enjoyed this. Just imagine how many stories of history I've never heard, thank you for sharing.🌺

This was very well produced. Enjoyed every moment. Thank you ❤️

Excellent! Thank you.

Gwen is beautiful! Thanks for the story!

That was beautiful - thank you!

When I was in the 4th grade in the 1960's I met my new and old friend Mr. Johnson. At the time he was 103 years old. He was in excellent physical condition. He was very tall, dark, thin and quiet spoken. His mind was like a walking Encyclopedia. He told me about his life in Africa, how he was stolen and became a slave in America to becoming a free man. He had no family living at the time, but he told me of his mom, dad and sister and brother that he never saw again. As a little girl, his life history was mine boggling to me - so I became a 9 year old writer. I would hurry home from School everyday so I could sit on his porch while he weaved his beautiful baskets, a trade he learned as a slave, listening and writing his life history. When I was in the 6th grade my teacher let me borrow a tape recorder so I could document his story with him telling me his story in his own voice while answering my questions. I still have my journals of Mr. Johnson along with the old tapes. I've kept them safe and private for many decades. I find myself reading them and with my mind I can see and hear Mr. Johnson's kind voice while he sat on his porch in a rocking chair that he had made weaving his baskets. RIP Mr. Johnson -✝️💕

Lovely story. So important to collect these stories.

What a wonderful story

I'm an Oregonian and from loggers and rail people. Worked the woods and trains myself. This has been tremendous history and filming and interviewing. Ms. Trice is well spoken, warmly professional, and a heck of a looker. Thanks ma'm

Wonderful! And that dear teacher's comment and face " yeah, " the sooner the better" was beautiful!

Very interesting. Thank you!

Really interesting, it was so good to people getting along. They all worked together and lived together. Sounds like heaven!

Love this ❤

wow ; as being oregon girl raised and lived as well; i didnt know any of this..... " i moved to seattle after high school " ; i like washington. ; but oregon is home :)

That was so fabulous. I'm so grateful to learn about this.

This is an amazing piece of history and very well edited, produced, and narrated. Thank you 🙏

Excellent documentary! ❤

Beautiful story and beautiful history,,,

We really enjoyed this history. Love all those who lived there ❤

I really enjoyed hearing this hidden gem of history.

Amazing people remembering so far back 👏👏👏👏

Great video. Wonderful story!

I truly enjoyed this episode

Deep River is a 2019 novel written by Karl Marlantes addressing logging west of the Cascade Mountains during the same period (early 20th Century) addressed in this expose'. Deep River examines the role of Organized-Labor in the lumber industry during that time.

This was a very interesting and informative documentary!

Love this ! Please update❤

Our history as African Americans in this country is important. Thank you for sharing your family's experience with us Gwen.

What a good story😊 go strong beautiful lady 💪🙏

What a great story. I love that area. My mother was born in Hot Lake, Oregon, not far from there, in 1930. Grandpa Baker was Jack of all trades. Mostly mining and building.

I love this story. It was raw and truthful from the people that lived it.

This is the most beautiful thing i've ever seen.. We are all the same.. Nothing will change that.. Nothing will stand on the way.

Excellent.Thank you Sir for your service and Excellence

What a wonderful piece of history I wasn’t aware of. Thanks for posting this documentary.

Great story

What an interesting and entertaining presentation. Good ting in Oregon no one was having to figure out how to make good enough roads on the muskeg and permafrost. Like to northern Alberta, Canada after marrying into a European family background near a city like in Edmonton, Alberta Canada after working there from a very young age for a while making bricks too.

Love this story. I was born in Oregon and my Dad was a logger for a time.

Thank you for sharing this story. The world is a different place now. It's beautiful to remember that we can all get along. Respect for our differences is what we need, not the opposite.

Thank you ❤❤ great story

Many came from Eastern Ky including my Mom’s uncles. One lost a son in a logging accident but this was when they finally settled in Michigan to cut trees. Another uncle lost a daughter in a hunting accident after settling down for good in Wisconsin

Very interesting..history never learned

when i’m out Oregon, it’s North West, all day !

Great video

Logger was a big laughing joking hard working mighty job for a real man like Lucky. My family logged too, in Oregon. We were white-but I don’t remember that our part of Oregon felt this way about any color lines.

Nicely done Bravo !!!

good story

As Morgan Freeman said this is our history and it is. What a wonderful journey she made to share.

Black men's referred to as boy's white's as mens wow!

My father dropped out of school at 14 to help support his family.

Finally, the narrative coming from the Pacific Northwest has been lily white...the voices of others need to be heard. Ms. Gwen, thank you for sharing the story of your beautiful family. Lucky wasn't just lucky, he was blessed. 🌹

FANTASTIC 🎉🎉

Nice to see this history it would just be a big field out in the woods forgotten must be something to stand there were lucky her dad once walked and lived...

Gwen is gorgeous, shes looks exactly like her mother ❤

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Would love to hear of others who went out Northwest from Arkansas. 🖤

@17:03 “It was rugged.” 😂😂🙏🏽

The Bible says that God's people would be called by words and would be hated by ALL NATIONS!!!

History is important. Here in Texas in a small southern town we had Two black families. They didn't know they were black cause we treated the same. Actually we loved them more.

Logging today is one of the most dangerous professions there is. I can only imagine how much worse it was back then. I was 10 when we moved to the Salem area from the midwest. Dad had been stationed at a recruitment center in Salem after spending WWII in the Pacific. They fell in love with the weather and just about everything else. Swore they'd be back. As of July 4th, 1967, they were. No place on earth I'd rather be.

There were no Native left? They probably had been disposessed before or as the lumber companies came and the survivors may have left to Canada to escape that expansion on their land. 🍁

Time for an update ❤

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I cringed at the terms used to describe black people. But although they came with their prejudices and ignorance they managed to exist in their separateness. I struggle…

it is in the "small" his- and herstories, that the greater truths are found. the grand ones just sate the egos of small men.

History though has dark and hateful moments it's also beautiful and inspiring; but I guess depending on your perceived reality some want it to be not to be taught , learned and in worst case erased. Why? is the question.

How could you say to your little girl,"you cant play with her she is black" that breaks my heart,we are all one race and that is the human race,love one another

The N word part for that guy ok smh..not sure if i heard that right omg.

They aren't even mentioning the Indian people who had recently been thrown off the lands for the convenience of logging barons.

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Poor Black people. Having to contort yourself to be around these awful people. I feel for these poor Black people, what they endured. African people lost so much of their own culture having to placate these empty people😮

I hope their third wish comes true, the wish that doesn't even need to be asked.