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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Michigan's Lumbertowns: Lumberman and Laborers in Saginaw, Bay City, and Muskegon, 1870-1905

Michigan's Lumbertowns: Lumberman and Laborers in Saginaw, Bay City, and Muskegon, 1870-1905

Kilar, Jeremy W.

Paperback

Series: Great Lakes Books

Biographies GeneralRegional: Midwest

ISBN10: 0814320732
ISBN13: 9780814320730
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: Aug 1 1990
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.54
Language: English

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.

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