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  • Sunset limited = the Southern Pacific Railroad and the development of the American West, 1850-1930 /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    正題名/作者: Sunset limited/ Richard J. Orsi.
    其他題名: the Southern Pacific Railroad and the development of the American West, 1850-1930 /
    作者: Orsi, Richard J.
    出版者: Berkley :University of California Press, : c2005.,
    面頁冊數: xxii, 615 p. :ill., maps ;24 cm.
    內容註: 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.
    標題: Land use - History. - West (U.S.) -
    標題: West (U.S.) - Economic conditions - 19th century. -
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    ISBN: 1423700074 (electronic bk.)
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