Michigan's lumbertowns

Description:

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.

subjects: Industries,  Lumber trade,  Economic conditions,  History,  Economic history,  Lumbering,  Michigan, economic conditions,  Michigan, history

Places: Bay City (Mich.),  Michigan,  Muskegon (Mich.),  Saginaw (Mich.)