Title Railroad crossing : Californians and the railroad, 1850-1910 / William Deverell.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [1994]
	©1994

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 278 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: the varieties of railroad antagonism -- "What is this railroad to do for us?" -- "California netted with iron tracks" -- A volcano at any moment: the Pullman strike in California -- The Los Angeles "Free harbor fight" -- Pens as swords: fiction, nonfiction, and railroad opposition -- "Let us agitate and agitate": progressives and the railroad -- Epilogue: building an octopus.
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Subject	Railroads -- Social aspects -- California -- History.
	Railroads -- Social aspects.
	California.
	History.
	Railroads.
	Railroads -- California -- History.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Deverell, William Francis. Railroad crossing. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1994 0520205057 (DLC) 92040128 (OCoLC)27034326
ISBN	9780520917750 (electronic book)
	0520917758 (electronic book)
	0585176477 (electronic book)
	9780585176475 (electronic book)
	0520205057
	0520082141 (alkaline paper)