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書目-電子資源
: Monograph/item
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| 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. - |
| 電子資源: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=132035An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
1423700074 (electronic bk.) |