Backcountry Ghosts : California Homesteaders and the Making of a Dubious Dream /
"Josh Sides tells the remarkable stories of homesteaders in California, both those who succeeded and those who did not"--
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Lincoln, NE :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2021]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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 California 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 per year.


