Horn, Stanley F. This Fascinating Lumber Business. Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1943). First Edition. [12067]
Maroon cloth, gilt titles, no dust jacket, slight shelf-wear, 8 3/4 x 6 inches, tight. Top page edges dyed red, rest deckled. 328 clean pp., index; illustrated with b/w plates from photographs, foxing on some plates. Good. Hardcover.
Presents a history of the lumber business and then descriptions of lumbering in the West, South, North and East. Describes the process of producing lumber from the tree to the store. Discusses research and the future of the business.
Stanley F. Horn was a native Tennessean, an historian, businessman, editor, and author. As a young man he joined the staff of the Southern Lumberman, a trade paper for the forestry business. His interest in history led him to write several books on the American Civil War, and he was awarded with an honorary doctorate from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He was appointed the State Historian of Tennessee in 1965.
