Backcountry ghosts : California homesteaders and the making of a dubious dream /

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"Josh Sides tells the remarkable stories of homesteaders in California, both those who succeeded and those who did not"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sides, Josh, 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Land settlement > California > History.
Pioneers > California > Biography.
Ranchers > California > Biography.
Farmers > California > Biography.
Land tenure > California > History.
Homestead law > California > History.
Frontier and pioneer life > California.
Colonisation intérieure > Californie > Histoire.
Pionniers > Californie > Biographies.
Ranchers > Californie > Biographies.
Agriculteurs > Californie > Biographies.
Biens de famille (Droit) > Californie > Histoire.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Farmers.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Homestead law.
Land settlement.
Land tenure.
Pioneers.
Ranchers.
Rural conditions.
California > Rural conditions.
California > History, Local.
Californie > Conditions rurales.
Californie > Histoire locale.
California.
Biography
Biographies.
History.
Local history.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Not much else beside
  • A country of plantations and estates
  • Instant relics
  • Hard-bitten country
  • Violent paradise
  • Swindles and salvation in the Antelope Valley
  • Mexican lands in Mexican hands
  • Floods and utopias
  • Taming the Colorado Desert
  • Imperial Valley dreams
  • Crashing the orange gates
  • Exacting lives in the breadbasket
  • The rarified Bay Area
  • Among the trees of the North Coast
  • Under the shadow of Mount Lassen
  • Conclusion: Remembering homesteading
  • Appendix: Number of homesteads per county and year.

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