Frederick Weyerhaeuser & the American West (Paperback)

The Weyerhaeuser name looms large in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Washington, and Arkansas, attached to paper mills, cabinet factories, and vast tracts of land, both forested and cut over. Frederick Weyerhaeuser, the man who started the lumber empire, significantly shaped the American economy and landscape from Wisconsin westward in the nineteenth century. A complex and private man, Weyerhaeuser emigrated from Germany in 1852 at the tender age of eighteen. In just a few years, he would be a prominent lumberman, organising partnerships among competing companies, rationalising the business, and then making the largest timberland purchase in the history of the United States. Author Judith Koll Healey narrates the life of this extraordinary man through newly available resources: his extensive correspondence and journal entries as well as the letters and diaries of family members, friends, and business associates from around the country. She frames Weyerhaeusers many commercial opportunities and business decisions within both the familys internal dynamics and world events: war and unrest, economic upswings and downturns, and western expansion and eastern urbanisation. Throughout, Healey offers a thoughtful perspective on his achievements as well as the limitations of his vision for the expansion of the American West.

General

Imprint:	Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2013
First published:	May 2013
Authors:	Judith Koll Healey
Dimensions:	230 x 155 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-87351-891-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > History of specific institutions Books > History > American history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > History of specific institutions Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	0-87351-891-8
Barcode:	9780873518918

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