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Sunset limited the Southern Pacific Railroad and the development of the American West, 1850-1930

Title: Sunset limited [electronic resource] : 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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1 online resource (xxii, 615 p.) : ill.

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Sunset limited (Online)

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Sunset limited (Online)

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-588) and index.

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Access restricted to authorized users.

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.

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