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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Clark, Thomas Dionysius, 1903-2005
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1984.
Series:New perspectives on the South.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Land of Tall Timber
  • Carpetbaggers of the Woods
  • Nesting Birds and Wood Ships
  • Dawining of the Age of Scientific Forestry
  • Inception of the South's Second Forest
  • The CCC Boys
  • The Tennessee Valley Experiment
  • Charles Herty's Legacy
  • The Grand March South
  • Rearranging the Land.