The Lumberman's Frontier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lumberman's Frontier write by Thomas R. Cox. This book was released on 2010. The Lumberman's Frontier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With The Lumberman's Frontier, Thomas Cox has reconstructed a groundbreaking history that stands apart from all previous studies of American forests. Forests were ubiquitous in early America, but it was only in selected areas that trees, rather than farming, attracted settlement. These areas constitute the lumberman's frontier, which appeared first in northern New England in the seventeenth century, followed by upstate New York, the Allegheny Plateau, the upper Great Lakes states, the Gulf South, and the Far West. The forest frontiers generated capital and building materials important in the nation's development, but they also left a legacy of environmental problems, class and urban-rural divisions, and economic frictions. The 1930s marked the end of the lumberman's frontier, but these consequences continue to shape attitudes and policies toward forests, most notably the questions "Whose forests are they?" and "How and by whom should forests be used?" Drawing upon recent work in social and economic history, as well as a wealth of historical data on forest industries and individuals, The Lumberman's Frontier neither glorifies economic development nor falls into the maw of gloom-and-doom. It puts individual actors at center stage, allowing the points of view of the workers and lumbermen to emerge. The Lumberman's Frontier will appeal to students and scholars of forestry, public policy, and environmental history, as well as to general readers interested in the history and settlement of the United States.
North Country
North Country - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook North Country write by Jon K. Lauck. This book was released on 2023-05-04. North Country available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Travel north from the upper Midwest’s metropolises, and before long you’re “Up North”—a region that’s hard to define but unmistakable to any resident or tourist. Crops give way to forests, mines (or their remains) mark the landscape, and lakes multiply, becoming ever clearer until you reach the vastness of the Great Lakes. How to characterize this region, as distinct from the agrarian Midwest, is the question North Country seeks to answer, as a congenial group of scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals explores the distinctive landscape, culture, and history that define the northern margins of the American Midwest. From the glacial past to the present day, these essays range across the histories of the Dakota and Ojibwe people, colonial imperial rivalries and immigration, and conflicts between the economic imperatives of resource extraction and the stewardship of nature. The book also considers literary treatments of the area—and arguably makes its own contributions to that literature, as some of the authors search for the North Country through personal essays, while others highlight individuals who are identified with the area, like Sigurd Olson, John Barlow Martin, and Russell Kirk. From the fur trade to tourism, fisheries to supper clubs, Finnish settlers to Native treaty rights, the nature of the North Country emerges here in all its variety and particularity: as clearly distinct from the greater Midwest as it is part of the American heartland.
Minnesota
Minnesota - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Minnesota write by William E. Lass. This book was released on 2000-08. Minnesota available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive history of a state thought by many to be the most livable.
American Lumberman
American Lumberman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Lumberman write by . This book was released on 1883. American Lumberman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Frederick Weyerhaeuser and the American West
Frederick Weyerhaeuser and the American West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Frederick Weyerhaeuser and the American West write by Judith Koll Healey. This book was released on 2013. Frederick Weyerhaeuser and the American West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new biography of Frederick Weyerhaeuser (1834-1914), one of the great industrialists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and founder of the international timber corporation the Weyerhaeuser Company.
