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Contested Eden
California Before the Gold Rush
Av Ramón A. Gutiérrez, Richard J. Orsi
Häftad, 1998
500 kr
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Celebrating the 150th birthday of the state of California offers the opportunity to reexamine the founding of modern California, from the earliest days through the Gold Rush and up to 1870. In this four-volume series, published in association with the California Historical Society, leading scholars …
Rooted in Barbarous Soil
People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California
Av Kevin Starr, Richard J. Orsi
Häftad, 2000
529 kr
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Perhaps never in the time-honored American tradition of frontiering did 'civilization' appear to sink so low as in gold rush California. A mercurial economy swung from boom to bust, and back again, rendering everyone's fortunes ephemeral. Competition, jealousy, and racism fueled individual and mass …
Taming the Elephant
Politics, Government, and Law in Pioneer California
Av John F. Burns, Richard J. Orsi
Häftad, 2003
471 kr
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Taming the Elephant is the last of four volumes in the distinguished California History Sesquicentennial Series, an outstanding compilation of original essays by leading historians and writers. These topical, interrelated volumes reexamine the meaning of the founding of modern California during the …
Sunset Limited
The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West, 1850-1930
Häftad, 2007
382 kr
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The only major U.S. railroad to be operated by westerners and the only railroad built from west to east, the Southern Pacific acquired a unique history and character. It also acquired a reputation, especially in California, as a railroad that people loved to hate. This magisterial history tells the …
Yosemite and Sequoia
A Century of California National Parks
Av Marlene Smith-Baranzini, Alfred Runte m. fl.
E-bok, 1990
347 kr
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A century and a quarter ago, the national park idea was born when Abraham Lincoln signed legislation setting aside Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias "for public use, resort, and recreation inalienable for all time." Over the next decade, the Yosemite park commissioners had to …
Contested Eden
California Before the Gold Rush
Av Richard J. Orsi, Ramon A. Gutierrez
E-bok, 1998
589 kr
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Celebrating the 150th birthday of the state of California offers the opportunity to reexamine the founding of modern California, from the earliest days through the Gold Rush and up to 1870. In this four-volume series, published in association with the California Historical Society, leading scholars …
Taming the Elephant
Politics, Government, and Law in Pioneer California
Av Richard J. Orsi, John F. Burns
E-bok, 2003
541 kr
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Taming the Elephant is the last of four volumes in the distinguished California History Sesquicentennial Series, an outstanding compilation of original essays by leading historians and writers. These topical, interrelated volumes reexamine the meaning of the founding of modern California during the …
