For nearly two decades, Rustic Retreats Log Homes, Inc. was the exclusive builder of Pioneer Log Homes in Wisconsin. 1 Under the parties’ written distributorship agreement, Pioneer would provide ...

A decision by the Polk County Fair Board to demolish a historic cabin in Fertile, Minn., has upset some over what the board says is a necessary decision. Featured at the fair, the 131-year-old pioneer ...

Bryan Reid Sr., founder and owner of Pioneer Log Homes, discovered his love of log homes as a boy. He would walk in the winter with his father, a fur trapper, in -40 C temperatures all day. “You’d ...

Doug Pitts has done many interesting things during his construction career. “We’ve done underground shooting ranges. We’ve done indoor pools with corkscrew water slides. We’ve done full-blown bars ...

Bill King calls them ”jewel boxes.” Early Wisconsin settlers called them homes. Today they are just old log cabins. King searches them out in order to hang onto a bit of the past. King, who lives in a ...

LAKE WABAUNSEE — A couple of years ago, Pam and Craig Mehrhof finished building a pioneer log cabin across the road from their home at Lake Wabaunsee. The Mehrhofs’ goal was to have the cabin, which ...

A decision by the Polk County Fair Board to demolish a historic cabin in Fertile has upset some over what the board says is a necessary decision. Featured at the fair, the 131-year-old pioneer log ...

FERTILE, Minn. - A decision by the Polk County Fair Board to demolish a historic cabin here has upset some over what the board says is a necessary decision. Fertile, Minn., resident Carole Larson is ...