Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-253) and index.
Summary
This text uses the example of Henry Miller and Charles Lux, two San Francisco butchers who turned themselves into landed industrialists, to illuminate the industrial and environmental transformation of the American West.
Contents
Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Industrial Cowboys in the Far West; 1. The San Joaquin Valley; 2. Laying the Foundation; 3. Privatizing the San Joaquin Landscape in the 1870s; 4. Lux v. Haggin; 5. Laboring on the Land; 6. Confronting New Environments at the Century's Turn; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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