Format:
1 online resource (196 pages)
ISBN:
9781604732887
Content:
In this classic work of Mississippi history, Nollie W. Hickman relates the felling of great. forests of longleaf pine in a southern state where lumbering became a mighty industry. Mississippi Harvest records the arduous transportation of logs to the mills, at first by. oxcart and water and later by rail. It details how the naval stores trade flourished. through the production of turpentine, pitch, and rosin and through the expansion of. exports, which furnished France with spars for sailing vessels. The book tracks the. impact of the Civil War on southern lumbering, the tragedy of denuded lands, and,. finally, the renewal of resources through reforestation. Born into a family of lumbermen, Hickman acquired firsthand knowledge of forest. industries. Later, as a student of history, he devoted years of painstaking work to. gathering materials on lumbering. His information comes from many sources including. interviews with loggers, rafters, sawmill and turpentine workers, and company. managers, and from company records, land records, diaries, old newspapers, lumber. trade journals, and government documents. While the author's purpose is to share the history of a natural resource, he also gives the. reader the panorama of Mississippi. Mississippi Harvest interprets the state's people,. agriculture, industry, government, politics, economy, and culture through the lens of. one of the state's earliest and most lasting economic engines.
Content:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contents -- I The Setting -- II Ante Bellum Lumbering -- III Ante Bellum Lumbering in Harrison County -- IV Years of Transition -- V Commercial Lumbering in the Interior, 1865-1890 -- VI Federal Land Policies in the Pinelands -- VII State Land Policies in the Pinelands -- VIII Logging and Rafting, 1840-1910 -- IX The Naval Stores Industry -- X Life in the Turpentine Woods -- XI Lumbering Reaches Its Peak -- XII The Big Mills -- XIII Mississippi Pine Goes Abroad -- XIV Mississippi Pine Stays at Home -- XV Railroads and the Lumber Industry -- XVI The Labor Problem -- XVII The End and a New Beginning -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781604732870
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781604732870
Language:
English
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