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In the early part of the 20th century, Tacoma, Washington plywood manufacturer and lumber entrepreneur T.A. Peterman was faced with a lumber logistics problem. He could not get logs from the forest to his lumber mill quickly or efficiently. He sought to improve upon the methods of the day: floating logs down river, or the use of steam tractors and horse teams. Peterman knew that if he could develop the then-nascent automobile technology and build trucks, he could solve his problem.

Peterman was rebuilding surplus army trucks, improving the technology with each successive vehicle. Then he put a battery on the starter (instead of the crank) and soon purchased the assets of Fageol Motors of Oakland, California in 1938 to supplement his need for a custom built logging truck chassis. Fageol had gone into receivership in 1932. By 1938, the Great Depression had driven the value of the assets to nearly zero. Peterman acquired the defunct truck manufacturer and although he produced two...

My wife calls my camera our fourth child because it goes with us everywhere we go.This would explain the wide variety of photography on my site.After living in the Lake Tahoe Basin for more than 20 years an early disability retirement forced me to move down from the harsh winters of the high sierras to find a more tempered climate . This has opened up new photography opportunities for me and I am looking forward to new things and areas of interest to photograph.I hope you enjoy my site and please leave comments.My work has been featured in the United States And Europe .Magazines such as Happinez, Back Country and also used by the Smithsonian Chanel Missing Evidence program.My work has also been commissioned by several artists for...