Colonists and trees : lumbering before the lumberman's frontier -- The lumberman's frontier emerges -- The Maine frontier at floodtide -- From farmer-loggers to lumbermen in the Mid-Atlantic States -- Lumber and labor in the pines : new patterns of conflict -- New mills, new markets -- The full flowering -- Actions and reactions -- Southern beginnings -- Bonanza years in the Gulf South -- To the farthest shore--and beyond -- Into the mountains -- The final frontier -- Epilogue: Whose forests are they?