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Deep Woods Frontier: A History of Logging in Northern Michigan

Deep Woods Frontier: A History of Logging in Northern Michigan

Paperback

Series: Great Lakes Books

19th Century United States HistoryAgricultureRegional: Midwest

ISBN10: 081432049X
ISBN13: 9780814320495
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: Oct 1 1989
Pages: 308
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.94
Language: English

In Deep Woods Frontier, Theodore J. Karamanski examines the interplay between men and technology in the lumbering of Michigan's rugged Upper Peninsula.

Three distinct periods emerged as the industry evolved. The pine era was a rough pioneering time when trees were felled by axe and floated to ports where logs were loaded on schooners for shipment to large cities. When the bulk of the pine forests had been cut, other entrepreneurs saw opportunity in the unexploited stands of maple and birch and harnessed the railroad to transport logs. Finally, in the pulpwood era, weed trees, despised by previous loggers, are cut by chain saw, and moved by skidder and truck.

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

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