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Kilar, Jeremy W. "The Lumber Towns: A Socioeconomic History of Michigan's Leading Lumber Centers: Bay City, Saginaw, and Muskegon, 1870-1905," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 1987.
A comparative study of three lumber towns from their inception as frontier settlements to that crucial time period when depleted timber supplies compelled the logging centers to initiate determined efforts to survive. This dissertation is primarily a study of the role of entrepreneurial motives in urban economic development. The study also demonstrates that divergent cultural traits and economic patterns developed not only out of variations in the nature of each town’s lumbermen/entrepreneurs, but also from significant differences that evolved with respect to ethnic composition.
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