The Lumberman's Frontier
by Cox, Thomas R.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-04-01
Publisher(s): Oregon State Univ Pr
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Summary
With The Lumberman's Frontier, Thomas Cox has reconstructed a groundbreaking history that stands apart from all previous studies of American forests.
Author Biography
Thomas R. Cox is Professor Emeritus of History at San Diego State University. He earned a PhD from the University of Oregon and is a fellow and former president of the Forest History Society. He has published numerous articles on forest and environmental history and is the author of The Park Builders: The State Parks Movement in the Pacific Northwest Mills and Markets: A History of the Pacific Coast Lumber Industry to 1900; and co-author of This Well-Wooded Land: Americans and their Forests from Colonial Times to the Present.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. x |
| Colonists and Trees: Lumbering before the Lumberman's Frontier | p. 1 |
| The Lumberman's Frontier Emerges | p. 23 |
| The Maine Frontier at Floodtide | p. 47 |
| From Farmer-Loggers to Lumbermen in the Mid-Atlantic States | p. 73 |
| Lumber and Labor in the Pines: New Patterns of Conflict | p. 101 |
| New Mills, New Markets | p. 125 |
| The Pull Flowering | p. 149 |
| Actions and Reactions | p. 191 |
| Southern Beginnings | p. 213 |
| Bonanza Years in the Gulf South | p. 235 |
| To the Farthest Shore—And Beyond | p. 263 |
| Into the Mountains | p. 291 |
| The Final Frontier | p. 331 |
| Epilogue Whose Forests Are They? | p. 363 |
| Notes | p. 377 |
| A Note on Sources | p. 513 |
| Index | p. 519 |
| Early Maine-New Hampshire forest frontier | p. 10 |
| Downeast in Maine | p. 33 |
| Middle Atlantic forests | p. 78 |
| Michigan's Lower Peninsula and its lumber markets | p. 127 |
| Wisconsin, Minnesota, and downriver | p. 161 |
| Gulf Coast pineries | p. 2l8 |
| Bonanza South lumber frontier | p. 241 |
| Pacific Coast forest frontier | p. 275 |
| Interior Far Western pineries | p. 337 |
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