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isionaries, gamblers, and evangelists — they would build the world’s largest sawmill, a planned city, and a new American path to the Pacific. Hal Calbom Empire of Trees
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Introducing
EMPIRE OF TREES
BY HAL CALBOM
America’s Planned City and the Last Frontier
Hal Calbom recounts the founding of a remarkable city in the far reaches of the wild Pacific Northwest.
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Historical photos courtesy of Longview Public Library
H
owever isolated Longview was, thanks to its huge ambitions and aggressive promotion,
the whole world would watch its birth and development.
Empire of Trees
Brett Renville photo
“
A refreshing take on the story of Longview, then and now.” Michael O. Perry, author Dispatches from the Discovery Trail
people+ place then and now Judy VanderMaten photo
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Then and Now ... Empire of Trees tells the tale of two cities – a grand utopia built on a harvest of trees and transformed by events and ingenuity. ... a different way of seeing.
Empire of Trees Centennial Edition $50
• 244 pages • Signed and gift-boxed • Author interview • More than 225 photos
www.crreader.com/crrpress Hal Calbom is a five-time Emmy Award winning photojournalist. He writes the monthly “People+Place” feature for Columbia River Reader. A graduate of R.A. Long High School in Longview, Washington, and Harvard College, he lives in Seattle.
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