Sunset limited the Southern Pacific Railroad and the development of the American West, 1850-1930 /
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Sunset limited |h [electronic resource] : |b the Southern Pacific Railroad and the development of the American West, 1850-1930 / |c Richard J. Orsi. |
| 260 | |a Berkeley : |b University of California Press, |c c2005. | ||
| 300 | |a xxii, 615 p. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 533 | |a Electronic reproduction. |b Palo Alto, Calif. : |c ebrary, |d 2009. |n Available via World Wide Web. |n Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. | ||
| 610 | 2 | 0 | |a Southern Pacific Railroad Company |x History. |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Water resources development |z West (U.S.) | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Land use |z West (U.S.) |x History. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a West (U.S.) |x Economic conditions |y 20th century. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a West (U.S.) |x Economic conditions |y 19th century. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a West (U.S.) |x Environmental conditions |x History. | |
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