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When Money Grew on Trees - A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron (Paperback)
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When Money Grew on Trees - A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron (Paperback)
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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 California-from lowly
lumberjack to unrivaled timber baron. Although he began his career
as a pioneer entrepreneur, Hammond, unlike many of his associates,
successfully negotiated the transition to corporate businessman.
Against the backdrop of western expansion and nation-building, his
life dramatically demonstrates how individuals-more than the
impersonal forces of political economy-shaped capitalism in this
country, and in doing so, transformed the forests of the West from
functioning natural ecosystems into industrial landscapes. In
revealing Hammond's instrumental role in converting the nation's
public domain into private wealth, historian Greg Gordon also shows
how the struggle over natural resources gave rise to the two most
pervasive forces in modern American life: the federal government
and the modern corporation. Combining environmental, labor, and
business history with biography, When Money Grew on Trees
challenges the conventional view that the development and
exploitation of the western United States was dictated from the
East Coast. The West, Gordon suggests, was perfectly capable of
exploiting itself, and in his book we see how Hammond and other
regional entrepreneurs dammed rivers, logged forests, and leveled
mountains in just a few decades. Hammond and his like also built
cities, towns, and a vast transportation network of steamships and
railroads to export natural resources and import manufactured
goods. In short, they established much of the modern American state
and economy.
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