Albert Lewis Johnson. (May 12, 1871 – March 30, 1935), better known as Jigger Johnson (also nicknamed Wildcat Johnson,[1]Jigger Jones, or simply The Jigger), was a legendary logging foreman, trapper, and fire warden for the U.S. Forest Service who was known throughout the American East for his many off-the-job exploits, such as catching bobcats alive barehanded, and drunken brawls.[2]
Logging historians, such as Stewart Holbrook, Robert Pike, and others, have called him "the last lumberjack"[3][4][5] of the old-fashioned type who "cut a swath of timber from Maine to Oregon" and "yelled like crazy devils every spring when they pounded the bars in Bangor, Saginaw, St. Paul, and Seattle".[6]
The U.S. Forest Service maintains the Jigger Johnson Campground in the White Mountain National Forest, which they named in honor of him.[7]
^Smith, Sr., Robert Hanaford. "The Cocheco Times: Jigger Johnson". Retrieved May 17, 2017.
^"Albert Lewis Johnson obituary". Berlin Reporter. Berlin, New Hampshire. April 4, 1935.
^"World Film News and Television Progress". 3 (6). London Cinema Contact Ltd. October 1938. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^Pike, Robert E. (1967). Tall Trees, Tough Men. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0393319172.
^Holbrook, Stewart (1961). Yankee Loggers: A Recollection of Woodsmen, Cooks, and River Drivers. New York: The International Paper Company. ISBN 9781258435714.
^Holbrook, Stewart (1938). Holy Old MacKinaw: A Natural History of the American Lumberjack. New York: The Macmillan Company. ISBN 1-112-55989-2.
^"Jigger Johnson Campground". U.S. Forest Service. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
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