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The lumberman's frontier : three centuries of land use, society, and change in America's forests / Thomas R. Cox.
Lippincott Library HD8039.L92 U537 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cox, Thomas R., 1933-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lumbermen--United States--History.
- Lumbermen.
- Lumbering--United States--History.
- Lumbering.
- Lumbering--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Frontier and pioneer life--United States.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Social change.
- History.
- Social conflict.
- Land use.
- Logging.
- Lumbering--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Logging--United States--History.
- Forests and forestry--United States--History.
- Forests and forestry.
- Land use--United States--History.
- Social conflict--United States--History.
- Social change--United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 531 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Colonists and trees : lumbering before the lumberman's frontier
- The lumberman's frontier emerges
- The Maine frontier at floodtide
- From farmer-loggers to lumbermen in the Mid-Atlantic States
- Lumber and labor in the pines : new patterns of conflict
- New mills, new markets
- The full flowering
- Actions and reactions
- Southern beginnings
- Bonanza years in the Gulf South
- To the farthest shore
- and beyond
- Into the mountains
- The final frontier
- Epilogue: Whose forests are they?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780870715792
- 0870715798
- OCLC:
- 465681303
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