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The greening of the South : the recovery of land and forest /
In the early 1920s, in many a sawmill town across the South, the last quitting-time whistle signaled the cutting of the last log of a company's timber holdings and the end of an era in southern lumbering. It marked the end as well of the great primeval forest that covered most of the South when...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
©1984.
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| Series: | New perspectives on the South.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | In the early 1920s, in many a sawmill town across the South, the last quitting-time whistle signaled the cutting of the last log of a company's timber holdings and the end of an era in southern lumbering. It marked the end as well of the great primeval forest that covered most of the South when Europeans first invaded it. Much of the first forest, despite the labors of pioneer loggers, remained intact after the Civil War. But after the restrictions of the Southern Homestead Act were removed in 1876, lumbermen and speculators rushed in to acquire millions of acres of virgin woodland for minimal. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 168 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-157) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813158075 0813158079 |