The Caddo River Lumber Company and the Arkansas mill towns of Rosboro, Glenwood, and Forester provided jobs and homes for many during the brief heyday of the big sawmills. Smith takes a close look at several important timber companies, and at the personality of T. W. Rosborough, a man who bought and sold vast tracts of land and had an almost fatherly concern for both white and black sawmill workers.
The recollections included here provide insight into a population that lived through the Depression years in isolated mountain communities where cats were sometimes sold as possum meat, and where men enjoyed weekend “sip and sniff” poker parties. The book is richly illustrated with photographs from the time of the mills and includes a foldout map.
Sawmill was originally published in 1986 and reprinted in 2006.
Winner of the Virginia C. Ledbetter Prize
The Caddo River Lumber Company and the Arkansas mill towns of Rosboro, Glenwood, and Forester provided jobs and homes for many during the brief heyday of the big sawmills. Smith takes a close look at several important timber companies, and at the personality of T. W. Rosborough, a man who bought and sold vast tracts of land and had an almost fatherly concern for both white and black sawmill workers.
The recollections included here provide insight into a population that lived through the Depression years in isolated mountain communities where cats were sometimes sold as possum meat, and where men enjoyed weekend “sip and sniff” poker parties. The book is richly illustrated with photographs from the time of the mills and includes a foldout map.
Sawmill was originally published in 1986 and reprinted in 2006.
Winner of the Virginia C. Ledbetter Prize
Sawmill: The Story of Cutting the Last Great Virgin Forest East of the Rockies
246Sawmill: The Story of Cutting the Last Great Virgin Forest East of the Rockies
246Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780938626695 |
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Publisher: | University of Arkansas Press |
Publication date: | 07/01/1986 |
Edition description: | Reprint |
Pages: | 246 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d) |