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Protecting the Public Interest: Land Agents vs. Loggers on the Eastern Frontier, 1820–1840

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2021

Nancy M. Gordon
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Abstract

America's progression from a frontier society to a settled society took more than three hundred years. During that time, Americans had to give up their view of the resources of the public domain as “free goods” and accept the idea of public compensation for appropriation of those resources for private gain. This attitudinal change took place first on the public lands of Maine and laid the groundwork for the wood-products industry in the United States.

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Enterprise & Society , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , 01 September 2002 , pp. 462 - 481
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2002. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved.

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