In "Southern Timberman," Archer H. Mayor traces the legacy of
William Buchanan and the companies he owned along the borders of
Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas, from his first lumber mill in the
early 1880s to the sale of the last company in 1979. Like many
self-made men, Buchanan was known for both his compassion and his
relentlessness. To the hundreds of workers who lived in his
company-built mill towns, "Old Man" Buchanan was a caring father
figure. To his business associates, he was a strong-willed
profiteer--a God-fearing, "cut-out-and-get-out" lumberman whose
crews laid waste to thousands of acres of virgin pineland.
Whatever his tactics, William Buchanan had a gift for making
money. By the time he died in 1923, he was one of the wealthiest
men in the South. "Southern Timberman" is also the story of a
strong, volatile family who fought--sometimes among themselves--to
preserve that fortune. Tracing the growth of Buchanan's ventures
from the first acre of virgin pine to the charged atmosphere of the
corporate boardroom, Mayor paints a compelling family portrait set
against the background of America's oil and timber industries.
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