id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt b2773t9699c Craig William Kinnear The Legend of Logging: Timber Industry Culture and the Rise of Paul Bunyan, 1870-1945 1904 .txt text/plain 356 17 48 Paul Bunyan helped the lumber industry reconcile an important contradiction that lay at the heart of capitalist expansion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lumber companies used nostalgic representations of logging to consolidate power over their timberlands. cache/b2773t9699c.txt txt/b2773t9699c.txt