The author of two books about West Virginia lumber railroads has died. Dr. Roy B. Clarkson, 95, died on Sept. 12.
The West Virginia native and former botanist and forest biologist at West Virginia University wrote Tumult on the Mountains, Lumbering in West Virginia – 1770-1920, and On Beyond Leatherbark: The Cass Saga.
The first of those books was published in 1964 and detailed the rise and fall of logging and lumbering operations, including the railroads that served those operations.
His second book was published in 1990 and focused the Cass region of West Virginia and its railroads.
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