When Money Grew on Trees: A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron

Born in the timber colony of New Brunswick, Maine, in 1848, Andrew Benoni Hammond got off to an inauspicious start as a teenage lumberjack. By his death in 1934, Hammond had built an empire of wood that stretched from Puget Sound to Arizona—and in the process had reshaped the American West and the nation’s way of doing business. When Money Grew on Trees follows Hammond from the rough—and—tumble world of mid—nineteenth—century New Brunswick to frontier Montana and the forests of Northern Cal...