Jigger Johnson - Knowledge (XXG)

512:, asked the Jigger if he could catch him two bobcats for a show he was doing, and if he could, he would pay him $ 25. Jigger agreed, and captured two bobcats and tied their feet together and started out for the train station, occasionally hitting their heads together to keep them quiet. Johnson asked the stationmaster how much it would cost to ship the cats to Portland, and after about ten minutes, the stationmaster revealed to Jigger that there wasn't any tariff on shipping bobcats, and thus he could not ship them. Johnson ended up hiring a taxi driver to drive him to Portland, and he hand delivered the cats himself. 308:. Jigger managed to grab a hold of Lapointe's feet and lifted him up and placed him onto a hot wood stove and held him there for a few minutes, all the while Lapointe bellowed. When Jigger finally let up, he proceeded to jump into the air and grabbed a hold of a kerosene lamp from the ceiling and smashed it over the bouncer's head. The kerosene met the heat and ignited Lapointe's clothes. Lapointe ran outside, still ablaze, and had to be put out by bystanders, while Jigger's frightened men returned to camp. 349: 31: 242:, claimed that Johnson had few equals as a woodsman at a time when a man working in the woods was judged by the smoothness of the scarf of his axe’s undercut. They said that the Jigger was an unusually good logger and that he could fell a tree uphill, downhill, with or against the wind, even so that upon falling it would drive a stake previously set in the ground. 217:

During meals, it was forbidden for the loggers to converse with one another; they were expected to finish eating as quickly as possible and get back to cutting wood. One evening, a few newcomers decided to talk during dinner, and continued to talk after the young Jigger politely asked them to stop.

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Johnson worked on the Connecticut River for the C.V.L. until 1915, when the last long-log drive occurred. He then continued to work for the remainder of his logging career on the Androscoggin River. Sensing that the long-log drives were coming to an end, Jigger retired from working in the woods in

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The other loggers were so impressed that a young boy would even attempt to take on a fully grown man that they all combined a portion of their wages and bought the Jigger a can of chewing tobacco. Later loggers would say that because of this, men who fought Jigger would never get their caulk boots

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and Robert Pike, for his extraordinary intuition, tolerance to cold weather, ability to consume massive amounts of any proof alcohol, and his enormous strength. It is through the recounting of the Jigger's numerous off-the-job exploits by these historians that the Jigger has become somewhat of an

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One logger started arguing with the boy Jigger, and the next thing the loggers knew was that the youth had jumped onto the fully grown man and sunk his teeth into his ear. After the other men separated the two, part of the man's ear remained in Jigger's mouth.

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Once, the Jigger used a deer carcass to lure two bobcats under a tree that he had climbed. While the bobcats were having their feast, Johnson pounced on them and bagged them, live, barehanded. One of these cats was sold to the

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log barefooted, and supposedly wouldn't hire anyone else who couldn't do the same. He was well known to be an honest, hardworking boss, who would pay his men high wages to work for him. He would walk into saloons at

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that whenever Jigger entered the camp of a new logging operation, for his resume he would exclaim, "I can jump higher, squat lower, turn sideways quicker, and spit further than any son-of-a-bitch in a camp."

411:. Bob and Jigger banded together and won the race, with the prize being a half-bushel of fresh potatoes. He and Monahan then lugged the sack of potatoes up to Carter Dome, where the two men had a feast. 532:. The car ended up sliding off the road just as the Jigger was about to get out of the car, pinning him to a tree. Jigger was taken to the Memorial Hospital in Conway, where he died on March 30, 1935. 203:

in one hand and an axe in the other. Another legend states that he only had two formal days of schooling. On the first day, the Jigger forgot his books, and on the second day the teacher was out sick.

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Although he paid his men handsomely, he expected a lot from them. On one occasion during a river drive, Jigger told his men to wait at camp while he went to recruit more log drivers in

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The young Jigger soon worked his way up the ranks in the woods—swamping roads, tending landing, and chopping, to eventually emerge at the age of 20 as head chopper in charge of a

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to celebrate. The next morning, after realizing he had not checked his traps in over 24 hours (as state laws required), Johnson hired a man to drive him back to

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After the Forest Service was forced to let him go due to his drinking, Johnson was hired to man a privately owned fire tower on Bald Mountain in

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On one occasion while the Jigger worked on Carter Dome, he and a friend, Robert Monahan, set off from "The Dome" to

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stock. According to legend, when Jigger was born he came out of his mother's womb with a wad of tobacco in his lip,

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Shortly after the end of his logging career, Jigger Johnson found a profession as a fire warden for the

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near his face, due to fear of his teeth—Jigger claimed he could chew "though boot, hide, an' all."

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At the young age of 12, he went to work in the woods as a "cookee", or cook's assistant, at a

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In his younger years, Jigger Johnson boasted that he would not leave any tree standing from

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by the name of Lapointe, then knocked Johnson to the ground and began stomping him with his

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Monahan, Robert. "The Jigger", Northeast Publications, Concord, New Hampshire, 1975.

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that was hung on the wall, and ran into the crowd swinging. The bouncer, a bulky

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Langlois, D. "Coffee Grounds", Dappled Grass, Concord, New Hampshire, 2006.

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Following his death, Jigger Johnson was made famous by writers, such as

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As a foreman, Jigger was known to have kicked off the knots of a frozen

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The U.S. Forest Service maintains the Jigger Johnson Campground in the

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Yankee Loggers: A Recollection of Woodsmen, Cooks, and River Drivers

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Yankee Loggers: A Recollection of Woodsmen, Cooks, and River Drivers

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Johnson worked for many years as a logging foreman in the woods of

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