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OverviewAt a bend in the Palouse River, in the shadow of Gold Hill, rests the town of Potlatch, Idaho. It projects an image of gritty, working-class living. But its ordinary appearance belies an unusual past. Potlatch was a company town--a town completely owned by a large lumber company.Company Town, however, is more than just another community history. It is a history of the Pacific Northwest in microcosm--the exploitation of natural resources; the impact of big business upon the development of a rural area; and ordinary people making a place their home. Company Town gives us insights into the life of a rural community and follows its progress through the decades. It shows the close ties between community life and the larger spheres of the timber industry, regional and national economics, and international events. The book imparts a sense of what it was like to work in the sawmill and live in what the Potlatch Lumber Company had planned as a model town. Keith Petersen received the 1987 Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History for his work on Company Town. Co-published with the Latah County Historical Society, Moscow, Idaho. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Keith C. PetersenPublisher: Washington State University Press Imprint: Washington State University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.553kg ISBN: 9780874220377ISBN 10: 0874220378 Pages: 284 Publication Date: 16 July 1987 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsThe Setting Move to Idaho The Potlatch Lumber Company Largest White Pine Sawmill in the World Building a Company Town Potlatch and Environs Providing Essentials in a Company Town Life in a Company Town Two Wars and a Depression The End of the Experiment Epilogue Abbreviations Notes Bibliographical Essay IndexReviewsA valuable contribution to our understanding of industry and community-building in the West. --Public Historian Petersen is a gifted writer. Would that more history was written with the same grace as Company Town. --Journal of the West """A valuable contribution to our understanding of industry and community-building in the West."" --Public Historian ""Petersen is a gifted writer. Would that more history was written with the same grace as Company Town."" --Journal of the West" Petersen is a gifted writer... He coptures events and places, and he renders useful descriptions of all the processes in timber operations. Would that more history was written with the same grace as Company Town. Author InformationAs a former Idaho State Historian and Associate Director of the Idaho State Historical Society, Keith Petersen's fascination with history has been expressed throughout his career. The author of numerous articles and books about the Northwest, he is the only person to have twice received the Idaho Book Award.Petersen received the first annual Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Humanities from the Idaho Humanities Council in 1986, the Presidential Medallion from Lewis-Clark State College in 2006, and an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from the University of Idaho in 2014. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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