shanty road

Lumbering

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a bush road made for hauling logs from the cutting area.

Quotations

1895

He crossed shanty roads, trod heaps of brush, forced his way through the tops of felled pines. . . .

1896

Shanty roads, those cut for lumbering, were the only roads for years.