California: Land of New BeginningsU of Nebraska Press, 1. jan. 1987 - 480 strani From the earliest Spanish explorations in the late 1500s through the present, California's history and growth have been both tumultuous and phenomenal. All the historical facts are here: the missions and the Indians, the struggles between the Mexicans and the Americans, the fabulous gold rushes, statehood in 185O, railroad wars, furious labor upheavals, the disastrous scandals and bankruptcies of the 1920s, and the recent gigantic tamperings with nature. David Lavender tells, with unusual clarity and grace, the story of a beautiful state's rise to giganticism. In an afterword to this Bison Book edition, he looks at California today. |
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Prologue to Giganticism | 1 |
For Greater Glory | 25 |
The Advent of the Americans | 48 |
Illegal Entry | 65 |
By Land as Well as by | 80 |
What Do You Do with a Tame Indian? | 94 |
The Schemers | 110 |
Sculpturing a | 125 |
Still Bigger Bonanzas | 257 |
The Transportation Trap | 267 |
Mastering the Land | 280 |
Boil and Bubble | 295 |
The Sound of the Boom | 313 |
New Brooms | 329 |
Waters Dreadful Price | 345 |
The Creakings of the Gravy Train | 360 |
It Made My Heart Thump | 149 |
The Deluge | 165 |
Wild Free Disorderly and Grotesque | 175 |
13 | 190 |
16 | 218 |
The Fevers of Prosperity | 231 |
Ride the Whirlwind | 239 |
Double Helpings of the Same | 379 |
The Juggernauts | 397 |
Protest | 414 |
Afterword | 431 |
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