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Company Town Potlatch Idaho and the Potlatch Lumber Company by Keith Petersen SC
Company Town Potlatch Idaho and the Potlatch Lumber Company by Keith C. Petersen soft cover
Company Town Potlatch Idaho and the Potlatch Lumber Company
Keith C. Petersen
Soft Cover
284 Pages
Copyright 1987
Contents
The Setting 1
Move to Idaho 18
The Potlatch Lumber Company 35
Largest White Pine Sawmill in the World 60
Building a Company Town 83
Potlatch and Environs 99
Providing Essentials in a Company Town 118
Life in a Company Town 141
Two Wars and a Depression 156
The End of the Experiment 187
Epilogue 205
Abbreviations 215
Notes 217
Bibliographical Essay 270
Index 277
At a bend in the Palouse River, in the shadow of Gold Hill, in northern Latah County, Idaho, rests a town named Potlatch. It is not particularly picturesque and projects an image of gritty working-class living. But the ordinary appearance of Potlatch belies its unusual past. For this was a company town a town completely owned by a large lumber company.
But Potlatch's history is more than just the history of a company town. Potlatch shows the history of the West 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 presents an insightful look 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.
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