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This is an episode in our weekly series titled 'Primary Source Tuesday.' Each Tuesday we have a reading from a particularly interesting historical item. Sometimes it's a historical tidbit that wasn't quite beefy enough to make a full column out of; other times, an especially interesting old newspaper article; frequently it's a short story from one of the frontier literary magazines that thrived in Oregon at the end of the 19th century. Today it's 'Cats on the Logs,' an article from the Jan. 7, 1939, issue of Collier's Weekly magazine written by legendary Oregon raconteur Stewart Holbrook. The article is about the old logger sport of log-burling, and while it takes place in Wisconsin, several Oregon loggers were on the scene to compete for the title of World Champion Log Burler.