Illustrations and maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Lumbering and lumbertowns -- Lumbertown enterprise -- Sawdust cities -- Adjusting to violence -- Lumbertown barons -- Workers in the mill towns -- Ten hours or no sawdust -- End of the White Pine Era -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index
Summary:
Introduction: This book examines the interaction of three communities' social, cultural, and economic institutions and assesses the effect on peoples' lives. Community experience defines the entrepreneurial character of the lumbertowns' sawdust barons as well as the character of the laboring mill men. This experience explains how the forces for progress induced changes that presaged the socioeconomic future of each lumbertown.