Turner's Camp on the Chippewa [Laws C23]

DESCRIPTION: A tale of the lumberman's life and troubles in the woods of Michigan. Most of the events are described in very general terms
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1938 (recording, Bill McBride)
KEYWORDS: logger lumbering
FOUND IN: US(MW) Canada(Ont)
REFERENCES (6 citations):
Laws C23, "Turner's Camp on the Chippewa"
Beck-SongsOfTheMichiganLumberjacks 12, "Turner's Camp on the Chippewa" (1 text)
Beck-TheyKnewPaulBunyan, "Turner's Camp on the Chippewa" (1 text)
Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps 19, "Turner's Camp on the Chippewa" (1 text)
Fowke-LumberingSongsFromTheNorthernWoods #10, "Turner's Camp" (2 texts, 1 tune)
DT 840, TURNRCMP
Roud #1926
RECORDINGS:
Bill McBride, "Turner's Camp on the Chippewa" (AFS, 1938; on LC56)
Leo Spencer, "Turner's Camp" (on Lumber01)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Lumber Camp Song" (theme) and references there
NOTES [111 words]: Beck-LoreOfTheLumberCamps says that "The Chippewa River runs from Coldwater Lake and empties into the Tittabawasee River near Midland, [Michigan]." However, there is also a Chippewa River in the wooded country of Wisconsin, It runs through Chippewa Falls and Eau Claire in Wisconsin, and enters the Mississippi below Lake Pepin (which is thought to be partly caused by the runoff dumped by the Chippewa). Given that there are no collections from Wisconsin, Beck is probably right to assume that the song is from Michigan (his informant said that it was composed in the camp of Charlie Turner in 1871), but we probably shouldn't regard it as having been proved. - RBW
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File: LC23

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