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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824842003321

Autore

Hickman Nollie

Titolo

Mississippi harvest : lumbering in the longleaf pine belt,1840-1915 / / Nollie W. Hickman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2009

ISBN

1-62103-539-5

1-282-48510-5

9786612485107

1-60473-288-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Disciplina

338.1749751

Soggetti

Lumber trade - Mississippi

Lumbering - Mississippi

Longleaf pine

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I: The Setting; II: Ante Bellum Lumbering; III: Ante Bellum Lumbering in Harrison County; IV: Years of Transition; V: Commercial Lumbering in the Interior, 1865-1890; VI: Federal Land Policies in the Pinelands; VII: State Land Policies in the Pinelands; VIII: Logging and Rafting, 1840-1910; IX: The Naval Stores Industry; X: Life in the Turpentine Woods; XI: Lumbering Reaches Its Peak; XII: The Big Mills; XIII: Mississippi Pine Goes Abroad; XIV: Mississippi Pine Stays at Home; XV: Railroads and the Lumber Industry; XVI: The Labor Problem; XVII: The End and a New Beginning; Appendix

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Sommario/riassunto

In this classic work of Mississippi history, Nollie W. Hickman relates the felling of great. forests of longleaf pine in a southern state where lumbering became a mighty industry. Mississippi Harvest records the arduous transportation of logs to the mills, at first by. oxcart and water and later by rail. It details how the naval stores trade flourished. through the production of turpentine, pitch, and rosin and through the expansion of. exports, which furnished France with spars for sailing vessels. The book tracks the. impact of the Civil War on southern



lumbering, the tragedy of denuded land