Frederick Weyerhaeuser And The American West

Author : Judith Koll Healey
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0873518985
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frederick Weyerhaeuser and the American West written by Judith Koll Healey and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2013 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new biography of Frederick Weyerhaeuser (1834-1914), one of the great industrialists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and founder of the international timber corporation the Weyerhaeuser Company.

Author : Charles E. Twining
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873513562
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book F.K. Weyerhaeuser written by Charles E. Twining and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick King Weyerhaeuser, eldest male of the Weyerhaeuser lumbering family's third generation, may not have matched his grandfather Frederick in fame or power, but among the progeny none was more widely known and respected -- and, within the family, loved -- than he was. How his talents and dedication helped make the Weyerhaeuser name synonymous with the lumbering industry and the clan one of the closest knit in the country is the book's focus.

Author : Michael P. Malone
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803281677
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American West written by Michael P. Malone and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history of the American West in the twentieth century, tracing economical, political, social, and cultural developments in the region from the turn of the century to the 1980s

Author : Steve Olson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393242803
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens written by Steve Olson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting history of the Mount St. Helens eruption that will "long stand as a classic of descriptive narrative" (Simon Winchester). For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, and nearby residents listened anxiously to rumblings from Mount St. Helens in southwestern Washington State. Still, no one was prepared when a cataclysmic eruption blew the top off of the mountain, laying waste to hundreds of square miles of land and killing fifty-seven people. Steve Olson interweaves vivid personal stories with the history, science, and economic forces that influenced the fates and futures of those around the volcano. Eruption delivers a spellbinding narrative of an event that changed the course of volcanic science, and an epic tale of our fraught relationship with the natural world.

Author : Philip F. Anschutz
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0990550249
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out Where the West Begins written by Philip F. Anschutz and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1800 and 1920, an extraordinary cast of bold innovators and entrepreneurs—individuals such as Cyrus McCormick, Brigham Young, Henry Wells and James Fargo, Fred Harvey, Levi Strauss, Adolph Coors, J. P. Morgan, and Buffalo Bill Cody—helped lay the groundwork for what we now call the American West. They were people of imagination and courage, adept at maneuvering the rapids of change, alert to opportunity, persistent in their missions. They had big ideas they were not afraid to test. They stitched the country together with the first transcontinental railroad, invented the Model A and built the roads it traveled on, raised cities and supplied them with water and electricity, established banks for immigrant populations, entertained the world with film and showmanship, and created a new form of western hospitality for early travelers. Not all were ideal role models. Most, however, once they had made their fortunes, shared them in the form of cultural institutions, charities, libraries, parks, and other amenities that continue to enrich lives in the West today. Out Where the West Begins profiles some fifty of these individuals, tracing the arcs of their lives, exploring their backgrounds and motivations, identifying their contributions, and analyzing the strategies they developed to succeed in their chosen fields.

Author : Ralph Willard Hidy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Timber and Men written by Ralph Willard Hidy and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Carey Jr.
Publisher : Infobase Holdings, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1438182147
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries, Revised Edition written by Charles Carey Jr. and published by Infobase Holdings, Inc. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the previous edition: "This fun-to-read source will add spice for economics and business classes..."—American Reference Books Annual "...worthy of inclusion in reference collections of public, academic, and high-school libraries. Its content is wide-ranging and its entries provide interesting reading."—Booklist "A concise introduction to American inventors and entrepreneurs, recommended for academic and public libraries."—Choice American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries, Revised Edition profiles more than 300 important Americans from colonial times to the present. Featuring such inventors and entrepreneurs as Thomas Edison and Madame C. J. Walker, this revised resource provides in-depth information on robber barons and their counterparts as well as visionaries such as Bill Gates. Coverage includes: Jeffrey Bezos Michael Bloomberg Sergey Brin and Larry Page Michael Dell Steve Jobs Estée Lauder T. Boone Pickens Russell Simmons Oprah Winfrey Mark Zuckerberg.

Author : Charles E. Twining
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780295973227
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George S. Long, Timber Statesman written by Charles E. Twining and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography, based largely on primary sources, of George S. Long (1853-1930), the manager of the 900,000 acres of western Washington timberland purchased by Weyerhauser from the Northern Pacific Railway in 1900. Under his aegis, the Washington Forest Fire Association came into being, followed by the Western Forestry and Conservation Association. An

Author : Matt Parbs
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467144843
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden History of Clinton, Iowa written by Matt Parbs and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two things people frequently say about Clinton are that it was the lumber capital of the world and home to the most millionaires per capita. While those interesting nuggets are not exactly true, there are plenty of fascinating facts about the city. Learn why Clinton could easily be known as a holiday town if not overshadowed by the meetings and parties of America's lumber kings. See what life was like guiding an acre-long log raft down the Mississippi. Enter the century-long debate on the location of the Big Tree. And find out how Clinton fed the world. Matt Parbs, director of the Sawmill Museum, unearths Clinton's past from the weight of myth and details its hidden history.

Author : Benjamin H. Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851097686
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making of the American West written by Benjamin H. Johnson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly researched, evocative account of the individuals and institutions involved in the settling of the non-Indian West—and of the impact of the development of the West on the nation as a whole. Making of the American West surveys the experiences of major social groups in the lands from the Mississippi to the Pacific, from the United States' penetration of the region in the early 19th century to its incorporation into national political, economic, and cultural fabric by the early 20th century. This revealing volume offers fascinating portraits of the people and institutions that drove the Western conquest (traders and trappers, ranchers and settlers, corporations, the federal government), as well as of those who resisted conquest or hoped for the emergence of a different society (Indian peoples, Latinos, Asians, wage laborers). Throughout, expert contributors continually return to the growing myth of the West and the impact of its promise of freedom and opportunity on those who sought to "Americanize" it.