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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"--

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Sides, Josh, 1972- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
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.