The Iron Triangle: Business, Government, and Colonial Settlers' Dispossession of Indian Timberlands and Timber

This book on timberland and timber resources is part of a series on the dispossession of Indian natural resources by the "iron triangle" of the federal government, big business and colonial settlers. The primary period covered in this book is 1840-1900. The areas focused on include the Great Lakes and the Pacific Northwest. Congress acknowledged that from "...the beginning, Federal policy toward the Indian was based on the desire to dispossess him of his land." Under the United States' dict...