When Money Grew on Trees: A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (665 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0806144475 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 496 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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By his death in 1934, Hammond had built an empire of wood that stretched from Puget Sound to Arizona—and in the process had reshaped the American West and the nation’s way of doing business. In revealing Hammond’s instrumental role in converting the nation’s public domain into private wealth, historian Greg Gordon also shows how the struggle over natural resources gave rise to the two most pervasive forces in modern American life: the federal government and the modern corporation.Combining environmental, labor, and business history with biography, When Money Grew on Trees challenges the conventional view that the development and exploitation of the western United States was dictated from the East Coast. In short, they established much of the modern American state and economy.. When Money Grew on Trees follows Hammond from the rough-and-tumble world of mid-nineteenth-century New Brunswick to frontier Montana and the forests of Northern California—from lowly lumberjack to unrivaled timber baron.Although he began his career as a pioneer entrepreneur, Hammond, unlike many of his associates, successfully negotiated the transition to corporate businessman. Born in the timber colony of New Brunswick, Maine, in 1848, Andrew Benoni Hammond got off to an inauspicious start as a teenage lumberjack. Against the backdro
"Amazing but true" according to Amazon Customer. A very interesting story, larger than life characters. Amazing but true. I. Five Stars Great source of historical and personal family history!. "Not Much of A Read" according to Gars. This is one boring book. Really boring. It reads more as a thesis paper might, all full of details of lumber production (even down to daily output). The probem wih the thing is that is simply is not very readable. Would have been a lot better if the reader could learn more about AB's daily habits, his realtions with his wife and children. And, what about the children? There is nothing to be learned about them other than how
About the AuthorGreg Gordon, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, is the author of Landscape of Desire: Identity and Nature in Utah’s Canyon Country.
Greg Gordon, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, is the author of Landscape of Desire: Identity and Nature in Utah’s Canyon Country.