While digging through the archives of the library, the first interesting source I stumbled across was a pamphlet that the logging camp would handout to all it’s visitors. Inside the pamphlet it told the story of the lumber industry of Eau Claire, how it came to be, and how it came to an end. It gave a layout of the camp and what each portion of the camp represented. I chose this piece because it gives the history of the logging industry and when people would come to the camp, they would come to educate themselves about the logging industry of Eau Claire, and not just to observe cool momentos and buy souvenirs.   

I was unable to find the author of the pamphlet, but who ever constructed it used great ethos throughout the reading. He used good rhetorical distance with his readers by not using any intimacy and being strictly formal throughout the pamphlet. By using using such good rhetorical distance, this boosts his ethos.

I learned a lot from this source, including a lot about the camp, the logging industry, and why it was built. This is a very valuable source to me because it provides me with a great background on my place of interest. However this also doesn’t provide me an answer to why the camp was moved to Carson Park, and how they were able to get the money to afford to move it.

I found a great a source in this pamphlet, and it provided me with a solid foundation of why the camp was built, and the history of the logging industry of Eau Claire. I still have a lot of research to do if I’m going to find out why it was relocated in 1983. I’m looking forward to the challenge and to my next blog post.