Download or read book The Traveling Timber Towns written by Fayrene Benson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tale of Timber Town written by Alfred A. Grace and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Tale of Timber Town" by Alfred A. Grace. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book From a Timber Town to a Ghost Town written by Julie Milliman and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book We Kept Our Towns Going written by Phyllis Michael Wong and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WITH A FOREWORD BY LISA M. FINE, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY—Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is known for its natural beauty and severe winters, as well as the mines and forests where men labored to feed industrial factories elsewhere in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But there were factories in the Upper Peninsula, too, and women who worked in them. Phyllis Michael Wong tells the stories of the Gossard Girls, women who sewed corsets and bras at factories in Ishpeming and Gwinn from the early twentieth century to the 1970s. As the Upper Peninsula’s mines became increasingly exhausted and its stands of timber further depleted, the Gossard Girls’ income sustained both their families and the local economy. During this time the workers showed their political and economic strength, including a successful four-month strike in the 1940s that capped an eight-year struggle to unionize. Drawing on dozens of interviews with the surviving workers and their families, this book highlights the daily challenges and joys of these mostly first- and second-generation immigrant women. It also illuminates the way the Gossard Girls navigated shifting ideas of what single and married women could and should do as workers and citizens. From cutting cloth and distributing materials to getting paid and having fun, Wong gives us a rare ground-level view of piecework in a clothing factory from the women on the sewing room floor.
Download or read book The Tale of Timber Town written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Timber Tannery and Tourists written by Lester St. John Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1979: This is an unusual history of a small town in the once heavily forested hills and valleys of the upper Hudson River. The story starts in pre-glacial times, follows through when white men discovered the great timber lands and when the place was an outlying area of Queensbury called Westfield. It continues through its birth as a town called Fairfield, then Luzerne, and later, Lake Luzerne. It tells of a great tannery and other industries and its surge of popularity as a summer resort. It mentions names from the first loggers to the first town council, and down to the present day (1979).Exploited for its timber by British loyalists, settled by soldiers of Scotch, Irish, Welsh, and English ancestry, infused with French from Canada and seaports near Manhattan, and strengthened with occasional Germanic and Italian immigrants, the new town became a small melting pot of home-seeking folk from the old country. This typical American mix is reflected in the birth and growth of the town.
Download or read book The Final Forest written by William Dietrich and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2011 Outstanding Title, University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award Before Forks, a small town on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, became famous as the location for Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight book series, it was the self-proclaimed “Logging Capital of the World” and ground zero in a regional conflict over the fate of old-growth forests. Since Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist William Dietrich first published The Final Forest in 1992, logging in Forks has given way to tourism, but even with its new fame, Forks is still a home to loggers and others who make their living from the surrounding forests. The new edition recounts how forest policy and practices have changed since the early 1990s and also tells us what has happened in Forks and where the actors who were so important to the timber wars are now. For more information on the author to to: http://williamdietrich.com/
Download or read book American Environmental History written by Carolyn Merchant and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By studying the many ways diverse peoples have changed, shaped, and conserved the natural world over time, environmental historians provide insight into humanity's unique relationship with nature and, more importantly, are better able to understand the origins of our current environmental crisis. Beginning with the precolonial land-use practice of Native Americans and concluding with our twenty-first century concerns over our global ecological crisis, American Environmental History addresses contentious issues such as the preservation of the wilderness, the expulsion of native peoples from national parks, and population growth, and considers the formative forces of gender, race, and class. Entries address a range of topics, from the impact of rice cultivation, slavery, and the growth of the automobile suburb to the effects of the Russian sea otter trade, Columbia River salmon fisheries, the environmental justice movement, and globalization. This illustrated reference is an essential companion for students interested in the ongoing transformation of the American landscape and the conflicts over its resources and conservation. It makes rich use of the tools and resources (climatic and geological data, court records, archaeological digs, and the writings of naturalists) that environmental historians rely on to conduct their research. The volume also includes a compendium of significant people, concepts, events, agencies, and legislation, and an extensive bibliography of critical films, books, and Web sites.
Download or read book Michigan s Lumbertowns written by Jeremy W. Kilar and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book American Lumberman written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Lumber Ghosts written by Kenneth A. Erickson and published by West Winds Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guides the backroads traveler to about eighty historic sawmill towns in various stages of decline. Organized into six different auto tours through once bustling coastal villages, with detailed directions, maps, old town plans, and historic photos.
Download or read book Timber Town Tales written by Cliff Sjogren and published by Cadillac Printing Company, Inc. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Lumberman written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Journey Due North written by George Augustus Sala and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist George Augustus Sala's memoir of his experiences and observations during a residence in Russia in the mid-19th century.
