Michigan's lumbertowns : lumbermen and laborers in Saginaw, Bay City, and Muskegon, 1870-1905 /
Kilar, Jeremy W.
Michigan's lumbertowns : lumbermen and laborers in Saginaw, Bay City, and Muskegon, 1870-1905 / Jeremy W. Kilar. - Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1990. - 361 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Great Lakes books .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-353) and index.
Publisher description: Michigan's foremost lumbertowns, flourishing urban industrial centers in the late 19th century, faced economic calamity with the depletion of timber supplies by the end of the century. Turning to their own resources and reflecting individual cultural identities, Saginaw, Bay City, and Muskegon developed dissimilar strategies to sustain their urban industrial status. This study is a comprehensive history of these lumbertowns from their inception as frontier settlements to their emergence as reshaped industrial centers. Primarily an examination of the role of the entrepreneur in urban economic development, Michigan Lumbertowns considers the extent to which the entrepreneurial approach was influenced by each city's cultural-ethnic construct and its social history. More than a narrative history, it is a study of violence, business, and social change.
0814320724 0814320732 (pbk.)
89038826 //r94
Lumber trade--History.--Michigan
Industries--History.--Michigan
Saginaw (Mich.)--Economic conditions.
Bay City (Mich.)--Economic conditions.
Muskegon (Mich.)--Economic conditions.
HD9757.M5 / K54 1990
330.9774/46041
Michigan's lumbertowns : lumbermen and laborers in Saginaw, Bay City, and Muskegon, 1870-1905 / Jeremy W. Kilar. - Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1990. - 361 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Great Lakes books .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-353) and index.
Publisher description: Michigan's foremost lumbertowns, flourishing urban industrial centers in the late 19th century, faced economic calamity with the depletion of timber supplies by the end of the century. Turning to their own resources and reflecting individual cultural identities, Saginaw, Bay City, and Muskegon developed dissimilar strategies to sustain their urban industrial status. This study is a comprehensive history of these lumbertowns from their inception as frontier settlements to their emergence as reshaped industrial centers. Primarily an examination of the role of the entrepreneur in urban economic development, Michigan Lumbertowns considers the extent to which the entrepreneurial approach was influenced by each city's cultural-ethnic construct and its social history. More than a narrative history, it is a study of violence, business, and social change.
0814320724 0814320732 (pbk.)
89038826 //r94
Lumber trade--History.--Michigan
Industries--History.--Michigan
Saginaw (Mich.)--Economic conditions.
Bay City (Mich.)--Economic conditions.
Muskegon (Mich.)--Economic conditions.
HD9757.M5 / K54 1990
330.9774/46041