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Michigan S Lumbertowns

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Author : Jeremy W. Kilar
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 1990

Michigan S Lumbertowns written by Jeremy W. Kilar and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Michigan's foremost lumbertowns, flourishing urban industrial centers in the late 19th century, faced economic calamity with the depletion of timber supplies by the end of the century. Turning to their own resources and reflecting individual cultural identities, Saginaw, Bay City, and Muskegon developed dissimilar strategies to sustain their urban industrial status. This study is a comprehensive history of these lumbertowns from their inception as frontier settlements to their emergence as reshaped industrial centers. Primarily an examination of the role of the entrepreneur in urban economic development, Michigan Lumbertowns considers the extent to which the entrepreneurial approach was influenced by each city's cultural-ethnic construct and its social history. More than a narrative history, it is a study of violence, business, and social change.

Lumberjack

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Author : William S. Crowe
language : en
Publisher: Loving Healing Press
Release Date : 2002

Lumberjack written by William S. Crowe and has been published by Loving Healing Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Technology & Engineering categories.

Winner--Best Biography/Memoir of 2002, Midwest Book Awards (St. Paul, MN) A firsthand account of the lumbering era during the white pine boom years of the late 1800s - early 1900s in the northern U.S. Millions of board feet of logs were cut in deep woods camps, driven down the rivers to the sawmills and shipped by schooner and barge to build a nation. This 70th Anniversary Edition of the original book has been redesigned and expanded, with 78 historic photographs and illustrations, glossary, editors' notes, maps and much more. "The lumber barons, the lumberjacks, and the town people who worked in the mills-as well as the happenings of that period... are recalled by one who lived among them. I hope it will be an inspiration to others to set down their memories of the days of falling pine and belt-driven sawmills. Already too much of this story has passed beyond recall... a valuable addition not only to the history of Manistique, but to the state as well." --Ferris E. Lewis, Michigan History, Lansing "An authentic first-hand account... which tells the whole story of big-scale lumbering during the 1890s and early 1900s. Chapter by enthralling chapter, Crowe recounts the times involved in the 'big pine' operations... it rivals anything so far written... rich in description and alive with thrilling episodes." --Marquette Mining Journal "First-hand accounts of the dramatic 'big cut' by participant-observers are always illuminating. William S. Crowe's reminiscence of his years in the woods and the early days of Manistique, at the north end of Lake Michigan in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, was a classic in the 1950s. His granddaughters Lynn McGlothin Emerick and Ann McGlothin Weller have done a real service by republishing his book with ample photos and notes." -- Mary Hoffman Hunt, Midwestern Guides "Focusing on Manistique and meticulously researched, Lumberjack explores the early days of logging and the lifestyles of the countless loggers that filled the woods in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. William Crowe, the author, was a logger himself who collected and relates real stories from the men who were there. This is a mandatory book for anyone interested in the history of the Upper Peninsula. --Mikel B. Classen, author - Historian, True Tales: The Forgotten History of the U.P. and Faces Places & Days Gone By: A Pictorial History of the U.P. From Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com

Logs And Lumber

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Author : Barbara Ellen Benson
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 1989

Logs And Lumber written by Barbara Ellen Benson and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.

Justus S Stearns

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Author : Michael W. Nagle
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2015-09-01

Justus S Stearns written by Michael W. Nagle and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-01 with History categories.

Near the turn of the twentieth century, “Pine King” Justus S. Stearns was Michigan’s largest producer of manufactured lumber and the owner of a prosperous coal mining operation headquartered in Stearns, Kentucky, a town he founded. Over the course of his career, Stearns would own at least thirty manufacturing businesses—making everything from finished lumber to kitchen utensils, game boards, and motors—as well as hotels, a railroad, and a power company. He was also an active member of the Republican Party who served one term as Michigan’s secretary of state and a philanthropist who gave a great deal of his wealth to causes in both Michigan and Kentucky. In Justus S. Stearns: Michigan Pine King and Kentucky Coal Baron, 1845–1933, author Michael W. Nagle details Stearns's astounding range of accomplishments and explores the influence of both paternalism and Social Darwinism in his business practices. Nagle begins by addressing key events in the first few decades of Stearns’s life and his initial foray into the lumber industry. Subsequent chapters explore Stearns’s political career, his timber operations in Wisconsin, and his coal, lumber, and railroad operations in Kentucky and Tennessee. Nagle also details the ancillary businesses that Stearns founded or purchased in the early twentieth century, even as his Stearns Salt & Lumber Company served as the anchor of his Michigan holdings, while Stearns Coal & Lumber did the same for his operations in Kentucky. The final chapter offers an overview and analysis of Stearns’s lifetime of accomplishments, including his impact on the town of Ludington, Michigan, where he maintained a residence for over fifty years. Nagle makes extensive use of primary source material from several historical archives as well as contemporary newspaper accounts, court documents, company records, and other primary sources. American history scholars, as well as general readers interested in Michigan’s lumbering era and Kentucky’s mining history, will enjoy this biography of an exceptionally influential businessman.

The Forests Of Michigan Revised Ed

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Author : Donald I. Dickmann
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2016-07-19

The Forests Of Michigan Revised Ed written by Donald I. Dickmann and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-19 with Nature categories.

A perfect companion to Michigan Trees

Yankees In Michigan

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Author : Brian C. Wilson
language : en
Publisher: MSU Press
Release Date : 2012-06-01

Yankees In Michigan written by Brian C. Wilson and has been published by MSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-01 with History categories.

As Brian C. Wilson describes them in this highly readable and entertaining book, Yankees—defined by their shared culture and sense of identity—had a number of distinctive traits and sought to impose their ideas across the state of Michigan. After the ethnic label of "Yankee" fell out of use, the offspring of Yankees appropriated the term "Midwesterner." So fused did the identities of Yankee and Midwesterner become that understanding the larger story of America's Midwestern regional identity begins with the Yankees in Michigan.

French Canadians In Michigan

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Author : John P. DuLong
language : en
Publisher: MSU Press
Release Date : 2001-04-30

French Canadians In Michigan written by John P. DuLong and has been published by MSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-04-30 with History categories.

As the first European settlers in Michigan, the French Canadians left an indelible mark on the place names and early settlement patterns of the Great Lakes State. Because of its importance in the fur trade, many French Canadians migrated to Michigan, settling primarily along the Detroit- Illinois trade route, and throughout the fur trade avenues of the Straits of Mackinac. When the British conquered New France in 1763, most Europeans in Michigan were Francophones. John DuLong explores the history and influence of these early French Canadians, and traces, as well, the successive 19th- and 20th-century waves of industrial migration from Quebec, creating new communities outside the old fur trade routes of their ancestors.

The Old Man Of Flynn S Island

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Author : Cal Patterson
language : en
Publisher: Author House
Release Date : 2009-07-20

The Old Man Of Flynn S Island written by Cal Patterson and has been published by Author House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-20 with Fiction categories.

This is a story of specific local interest. It is based upon the known existence of a hermit that indeed lived on this island inHigginsLake. As such it will appeal to folks with connections toHigginsLake,HoughtonLakeand the surroundingRoscommonCounty. In addition, it is a story of general interest, covering, as it does, experiences of our forefathers in the years from the Civil War to the early Twentieth Century. It is a good read for anyone with a lively interest in the history of these times.

Deep Woods Frontier

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Author : Theodore J. Karamanski
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 1989

Deep Woods Frontier written by Theodore J. Karamanski and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.

Narrating the history of Michigan's forest industry, Karamanski provides a dynamic study of an important part of the Upper Peninsula's economy.

The Lumberman S Frontier

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Author : Thomas R. Cox
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010

The Lumberman S Frontier written by Thomas R. Cox and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Business & Economics categories.

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.