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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright 1992 by the University of Iowa Press All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America
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Vogel, John N. Great Lakes lumber on the Great Plains: the Laird, Norton Lumber Company in South Dakota/by John N. Vogel; foreword by Wayne Franklin. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87745-385-3 1. Laird, Norton Co.History. 2. Lumber tradeUnited States History. I. Title. HD9759.L28V64 1992 338.7'6498'09783dc2092-17395 CIP
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Contents
Foreword
by Wayne Franklin
vii
Preface
xv
One Great Plains Settlement and Great Lakes Lumber
1
Two Settling South Dakota
15
Three Chippewa Valley Lumber and the Western Market
32
Four Laird, Norton on the Dakota Prairie
49
Five Dakota Towns and Their Lumberyards
93
Six The Plains Truth about the Lumber Business
109
Seven Boom, Bust, and Buildings
134
Notes
149
Bibliography
183
Index
189
Page vii
Foreword
by Wayne Franklin
Wood is so common a material that, like a picture frame, it may elude our eye even as it shapes our vision. In America, where great forests pandered to the wood-starved carpenters of Europe, wood was for long the refrain in our material existence. In many ways, even in this plastic age it lingers as the stuff of much ordinary life, so much so that plastic often pays it the compliment of imitation. From the beginning, it has sheltered the people and the animals; with modest additions of iron it worked the land and brought in and then housed the harvest; it heated the food on the hearth, supplied the trenchers that held the food as it was eaten, often with wooden utensils, while the weary gathered on wooden benches at their wooden table. Today it serves fewer of these purposes, shelter and furniture primarily. But these remain large uses that demand large quantities of the raw material. The felling, aging, cutting, and shipping of so great an amount of so bulky a commodity remain an important part of America's extractive industries. Here is a story that embraces the whole vast continent. At its center lies that nexus of cultural tradition, material opportunity, and spatial organization that is, in many ways, the story of the land itself.
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