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1 online resource (xix, 218 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-212) and index. |
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Annotation Set in what remains some of the wildest country in the United States, Sound Wormyrecalls a time when regulations were few and resources were abundant for the southern lumber industry. In 1901 Andrew Gennett put all of his money into a tract of timber along the Chattooga River watershed, which traverses parts of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. By the time he wrote his memoir almost forty years later, Gennett had outwitted and outworked countless competitors in the southern mountains to make his mark as one of the region's most seasoned, innovative, and successful lumbermen. His recollections of a rough-and-ready outdoors life are filled with details of logging, from the first "cruise" of a timber stand to the moment when the last board lies "on sticks" in the mill yard. He tells how massive poplars, oaks, and other hardwoods had to be felled and trimmed by hand, dragged down mountain slopes by draft animals, floated downstream or carried by rail to the mill, and then sawn, graded, and stacked for drying. He tells of buying timber rights in a land market filled with "sharp" operators, where titles and surveys were often contested and kinship and custom were on an equal footing with the law. Gennett saw more than potential "boardfeet" when he looked at a tree. He recalls, for instance, his efforts to convince the U.S. Forest Service to purchase undisturbed areas of wilderness at a time when its mandate was to condemn and buy up farmed-out and clear-cut land. One such sale initiated by Gennett would become the Joyce Kilmer Wilderness in North Carolina. Filled with logging lore and portraits of the southern mountains and their people, Sound Wormyadds an absorbing new chapter to the region's natural and environmental history. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Gennett, Andrew.
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Gennett, Andrew. |
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Gennett, Andrew. |
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Lumbermen -- Southern States -- Biography.
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Lumbermen. |
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Southern States. |
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Lumber trade -- Southern States -- History.
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Lumber trade. |
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History. |
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Hayler, Nicole.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gennett, Andrew. Sound wormy. Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2002 0820323454 (DLC) 2001041332 (OCoLC)47221859 |
| ISBN |
9780820337876 (electronic book) |
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0820337870 (electronic book) |
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0820323454 |
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9780820323459 |
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9780820329413 |
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082032941X |
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9780820339412 (paperback) |
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0820339415 (paperback) |
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