Book description
A truly entertaining and historical book with educational merit that portrays the lumber industry from its inconspicuous beginnings through a century and a half of progress. The main emphasis throughout Tumult... is on the day to day work and lives of the men engaged in the felling, skidding, loading, hauling,…
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The amazing photos and descriptions in the book absolutely stunned me. From 1880 to 1930, West Virginia went from being 95% forested with mostly virgin woods to 85% denuded, reflecting the fate of much of the Appalachian Mountain chain. In the early 1900s, the mill in Rainelle, WV, was the largest hardwood lumber plant in the world.
Clarkson tells this story through text and an amazing collection of photos, including of the largest tree ever cut in WV, in 1913: a white oak thirteen feet in diameter and estimated at 1,000 years old.
Outcries over damages from reckless timbering, followed…
From Chris' list on The best books about the fall and rise of the Great Forest of Appalachia.
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