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Sunset limited

by Orsi, Richard J.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : University of California Press, (Berkeley :) Physical details: xxii, 615 p.
Subject(s): Southern Pacific Railroad Company -- History. | Southern Pacific Company -- History. | Railroads -- California -- History. | Water resources development -- West (U.S.) | Land use -- West (U.S.) -- History. | West (U.S.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century. | West (U.S.) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century. | West (U.S.) -- Environmental conditions -- History. | Electronic books.
Year: 2005
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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