ABOUT THIS: (See photos)! Only a handful of family businesses take on the character of corporate entities to conceive, build and establish a permanence. The Stimson family is one of these. Six generations in one industry created an enterprise the envy of public corporations. With little save ambition and courage, Thomas Douglas Stimson began logging in the white pine wilderness of Lower Michigan in the mid nineteenth century. For the next 130 years, Stimson family members pioneered major developments in the lumber business, as well as real estate and conservation. In many ways the Stimsons defied convention. They seldom if ever borrowed money; in-vested during economic recessions and treated employees as extended family, avoiding major scandal and malfeasance in their ventures. Builder's Spirit, The Story of Stimson Lumber Company, chronicles the major events and personalities that built Stim-son Lumber Company. Not a sensational story, it is rather a story of quiet accomplishment, of human brilliance and of the good life well lived. Nor are the characters to be envied. For the Stimson legacy of conservatism, honesty, frugality, and self-reliance is a story of earnest endeavor. These traits, though decidedly American, are not gifts but hard earned realities. Lived and preserved despite the obstacles, the Stimson legacy is all the more to be prized because of the family's efforts. Only the hardy achieve such status. Condition: Good. Packed in a BOX with padding. Same or next day shipping (weekdays and Saturdays)! Ships from California. (See Photos!) Pages: not written on, clean, bright, odor free. Dust Jacket: clean, bright, edges - light crease at back top.