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Sunset limited : the Southern Pacific Railroad and the development of the American West, 1850-1930
- Title
- Sunset limited : the Southern Pacific Railroad and the development of the American West, 1850-1930 / Richard J. Orsi.
- Author
- Orsi, Richard J.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
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- Description
- xxii, 615 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- West (U.S.) > Environmental conditions > History
- Southern Pacific Railroad Company History
- West (U.S.) > Economic conditions > 20th century
- Land use > West (U.S.) > History
- Water resources development > West (U.S.)
- Railroads > California > History
- Southern Pacific Company History
- West (U.S.) > Economic conditions > 19th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-588) and index.
- Contents
- Foundations: "These mountains look too ugly and I see too much work ahead": building the Southern Pacific Company, 1850/1930; Men of vision: Southern Pacific leaders, land, agriculture, and the development of California and the West -- Land settlement: "Stand on the rights of the Company and make a square fight of it": land-grant myths, conflicts with government, and squatterism; The Mussel Slough affair; A land of "well-tilled little farms": land-grant development; Promoting the far West: 1860s-1900s -- Water: "The satisfactory supply is yet undiscovered": the Southern Pacific as a pioneer water developer; "A great encouragement for others": private irrigation; "This splendid country is to be reclaimed": public irrigation; "The government is hard to deal with": federal reclamation -- Agriculture: "Evangel train": scientific agriculture; "The damndest railroading you ever heard of": marketing the produce of western farms -- Conservation: "Shall this destruction proceed?": wilderness preservation; "Putting our properties on the most conservative and scientific basis": resource conservation -- Epilogue -- A note on Southern Pacific Company manuscript sources.
- Call Number
- IW 05-3801
- ISBN
- 0520200195 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004008782
- OCLC
- 55055386
- Author
- Orsi, Richard J.
- Title
- Sunset limited : the Southern Pacific Railroad and the development of the American West, 1850-1930 / Richard J. Orsi.
- Imprint
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-588) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- IW 05-3801