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Cultivating California
Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875-1920
Av David Vaught
Häftad, 2002
452 kr
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In Cultivating California, David Vaught shows how fruit and nut growers were neither industrialists nor agrarians. From the very outset, he explains, these "horticulturists" saw themselves as guardians of California's unique culture-raising crops for market while self-consciously building healthy …
After the Gold Rush
Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley
Av David Vaught
Häftad, 2009
502 kr
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"It is a glorious country," exclaimed Stephen J. Field, the future U.S. Supreme Court justice, upon arriving in California in 1849. Field's pronouncement was more than just an expression of exuberance. For an electrifying moment, he and another 100,000 hopeful gold miners found themselves …
After the Gold Rush
Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley
Av David Vaught
Inbunden, 2007
631 kr
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"It is a glorious country," exclaimed Stephen J. Field, the future U.S. Supreme Court justice, upon arriving in California in 1849. Field's pronouncement was more than just an expression of exuberance. For an electrifying moment, he and another 100,000 hopeful gold miners found themselves …
Farmers' Game
Baseball in Rural America
Av David Vaught
Inbunden, 2013
336 kr
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Anyone who has watched the film "Field of Dreams" can't help but be captivated by the lead character's vision. He gives his struggling farming community a magical place where the smell of roasted peanuts gently wafts over the crowded grandstand on a warm summer evening just as the star pitcher …
Spitter
Baseball's Notorious Gaylord Perry
Av David Vaught
Inbunden, 2022
466 kr
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Gaylord Jackson Perry was born in 1938 as the younger son of a tobacco sharecropper in Martin County, North Carolina. He and his older brother Jim grew up against a background of backbreaking work six days a week in a community that boasted not a single paved road until the 1950s. Their only …
