In "Southern Timberman," Archer H. Mayor traces the legacy of William Buchanan and the companies he owned along the borders of Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas, from his first lumber mill in the early 1880s to the sale of the last company in 1979. Like many self-made men, Buchanan was known for both his compassion and his relentlessness. To the hundreds of workers who lived in his company-built mill towns, Old Man Buchanan was a caring father figure. To his business associates, he was a strong-willed profiteer--a God-fearing, cut-out-and-get-out lumberman whose crews laid waste to thousands...