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Company town : Potlatch, Idaho, and the Potlatch Lumber Company / Keith C. Petersen.
Lippincott Library HD9759.P63 P47 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Petersen, Keith C., 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Potlatch Corporation--History.
- Potlatch Corporation.
- Lumber trade--Idaho--History.
- Lumber trade.
- Company towns--Idaho--History.
- Company towns.
- History.
- Potlatch (Idaho)--Economic conditions.
- Potlatch (Idaho).
- Idaho.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 284 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University Press ; Moscow, Idaho : Latah County Historical Society, 1987.
- Summary:
- Potlatch, Idaho, was a company town -- a community completely owned by a large lumber company. Its story is the story of the Pacific Northwest in microcosm: the exploitation of natural resources; the impact of big business on the development of a rural area; of ordinary people making a place their home.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages [270]-276.
- ISBN:
- 087422036X
- 0874220378
- OCLC:
- 16088174
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