When Money Grew on Trees: A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron Contributor(s): Gordon, Greg (Author)

Born in 1848, Andrew Benoni Hammond built an empire of wood that stretched from Puget Sound to Arizona--and in the process had reshaped the American West and the nation's way of doing business. When Money Grew on Trees follows Hammond from the rough-and-tumble world of mid-nineteenth-century New Brunswick to frontier Montana and the forests of Northern California--from lowly lumberjack to unrivaled timber baron.