Sawmill Modeling by Morgan Griffiths-First Printing- pre-owned softcover book by Paradise Publishers ---Sawmilling from 1850 to 1960 in the Truckee River Basin of Northern California---Condition is "Used" but it great shape. ---Sawmills are one of the oldest industries in North America, dating from 1630. They have evolved from simple and crude cutting sites to large high-tech plants. Their early characteristics of simple operation, portability and high potential to be consumed by fire have unfortunately left few examples to study. Historians of the lumber industry tend to limit their detail to tree cutting and transport of logs to the mill. When discussing the sawmill, they locate it geographically, identify its owners, years of operation and quantity of timber milled. Plans of the mills equipment used or pictures showing these machines in operation are very scarce. Sawmills have existed in almost every area of the United States and Canada. Model railroaders have also modeled it as one of their favorite subjects. This book attempts to explain the process of making logs into lumber during the period of the late 1800's to the mid-1900's. The area selected to tell this story is the Northern Sierra Mountain range around Lake Tahoe, on the border of California and Nevada.