Sawmill is a history of logging in the Arkansas and Oklahoma
Ouachita Mountains from 1900 to 1950, a penetrating study of the
lumber industry, and a significant view of manas interaction with a
major forest resource. It is also a social history in its account
of the lumbermenas quest for the last virgin timber and the effects
of its depletion. Kenneth L. Smith interviewed more than three
hundred people to develop this lively history of the cutting of
virgin shortleaf pine forests.
The Caddo River Lumber Company and the Arkansas mill towns of
Rosboro, Glenwood, and Forester provided jobs and homes for many
during the brief heyday of the big sawmills. Smith takes a close
look at several important timber companies, and at the personality
of T. W. Rosborough, a man who bought and sold vast tracts of land
and had an almost fatherly concern for both white and black sawmill
workers.
The recollections included here provide insight into a population
that lived through the Depression years in isolated mountain
communities where cats were sometimes sold as possum meat, and
where men enjoyed weekend asip and sniffa poker parties. The book
is richly illustrated with photographs from the time of the mills
and includes a foldout map.
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