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Michigan's
Lumbertowns
Lumbermen and Laborers in Saginaw, Bay City, and Muskegon,
1870-1905
Jeremy W. Kilar |
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Michigan's
foremost lumbertowns, flourishing urban industrial centers in the late 19th
century, faced economic calamity with the depletion of timber supplies by
the end of the century. Turning to their own resources and reflecting individual
cultural identities, Saginaw, Bay City, and Muskegon developed dissimilar
strategies to sustain their urban industrial status. This study is a comprehensive
history of these lumbertowns from their inception as frontier settlements
to their emergence as reshaped industrial centers.
Primarily an examination of the role of the entrepreneur
in urban economic development, Michigan
Lumbertowns considers the extent to which the
entrepreneurial approach was influenced by each city's cultural-ethnic construct
and its social history. More than a narrative history, it is a study of
violence, business, and social change. |
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"A
thorough and well-reasoned exploration of the history, evolution, and development
of three mid-sized Michigan industrial cities through the medium of the
logging industry. The work is important in relating the historical development
of typical Michigan cities to the functioning of the state's economy during
the late nineteenth century and afterward."
— William E. Rutter, The Public Historian
"A foundation for public understanding of
the timber industry and its participants in the building of cities as well
as the nation." — D. Lawrence Rogers, Michigan
Historical Review |
