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Article: Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South.(Book review)
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- The Mississippi Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 2004
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Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South, by Robert B. Outland III. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. 352 pp. $47.95.
EARLY TRAVELERS IN THE SOUTH NEVER FAILED TO REMARK UPON THE curious and odoriferous activities of the naval stores workers they came across in the vast longleaf pine forests that stretched from Virginia to Texas. Tar burners tended their smoldering kilns day and night, and turpentine laborers chipped streaks into pine trees and carted barrels of raw gum to distilleries. The making of naval stores was a critical component of early Southern economies, especially North Carolina's, and for a traveler it ...