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American lumbermen; the personal history and public and business achievements of one hundred eminent lumbermen of the United States (June 1905) Volume 1

An e-book from the Internet Archive.

American lumbermen; the personal history and public and business achievements of one hundred eminent lumbermen of the United States (June 1905) Volume 2

An e-book from the Internet Archive.

American lumbermen; the personal history and public and business achievements of one hundred eminent lumbermen of the United States (June 1905) Volume 3

An e-book from the Internet Archive.

History of the Lumber Industry of America (1906)

An e-book by James Elliott Defebaugh, from the Internet Archive.

History of the Lumber Industry of America (1906) Volume 2

An e-book by James Elliott Defebaugh, from the Internet Archive.

Wikipedia - History of the lumber industry in the United States

Wikipedia - Timber Culture Act

"The Timber Culture Act was a follow-up act to the Homestead Act. The Timber Culture Act was passed by Congress in 1873. The act allowed homesteaders to get another 160 acres (0.65 km2) of land if they planted trees on one-fourth of the land, because the land was "almost one entire plain of grass, which is and ever must be useless to cultivating man.'"