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The Lumberman's Frontier: Three Centuries of Land Use, Society, and Change in America's Forests
Thomas R. Cox
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Description for The Lumberman's Frontier: Three Centuries of Land Use, Society, and Change in America's Forests
Paperback. Num Pages: 560 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBT; KNAL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 161 x 32. Weight in Grams: 853.
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, ranching, or mining, 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 ... Read more
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, ranching, or mining, 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
Corvallis, OR, United States
ISBN
9780870715792
SKU
V9780870715792
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About Thomas R. Cox
Thomas R. Cox is Professor Emeritus of History at San Diego State University. He earned a PhD from the University of Oregon and is a fellow and former president of the Forest History Society. He has published numerous articles on forest and environmental history and is the author of The Park Builders: The State Parks Movement in the Pacific Northwest; ... Read more
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