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245 00 River city and valley life :|ban environmental history of
the Sacramento region /|cedited by Christopher J.
Castaneda and Lee M.A. Simpson.
264 1 Pittsburgh, Pa. :|bUniversity of Pittsburgh Press,|c[2013]
264 4 |c©2013
300 1 online resource (418 pages).
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
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490 1 History of the urban environment
500 Includes index.
505 0 Introduction: The Indomitable City and Its Environmental
Context / Steven M. Avella -- Part I. Boomtown Sacramento
-- John A. Sutter and the Indian Business / Albert L.
Hurtado -- River City : Sacramento's Gold Rush Birth and
Transfiguration / Kenneth N. Owens -- "We Must Give the
World Confidence in the Stability and Permanence of the
Place" : Planning Sacramento's Townsite, 1853-1870 /
Nathan Hallam -- Railroads and the Urban Environment :
Sacramento's Story / Richard J. Orsi -- Part II. Valley
Reclamation -- The Perils of Agriculture in Sacramento's
Untamed Hinterland / David Vaught -- Rivers of Gold,
Valley of Conquest : The Business of Levees and Dams in
the Capital City / Todd Holmes -- Forging Transcontinental
Alliances : The Sacramento River Valley in National
Drainage and Flood Control Politics, 1900-1917 / Anthony
E. Carlson -- Both "Country Town" and "Bustling
Metropolis" : How Boosterism, Suburbs, and Narrative
Helped Shape Sacramento's Identity and Environmental
Sensibilities / Paul J.P. Sandul -- Part III. Government
Town -- Unseen Investment : New Deal Sacramento / Gray
Brechin and Lee M.A. Simpson -- The Legacy of War :
Sacramento's Military Bases / Rand Herbert -- Recalling
Rancho Seco : Voicing a Nuclear Past / Christopher J.
Castaneda -- Part IV. Reclaiming the Past -- Dreams,
Realizations, and Nightmares : The American River
Parkway's Tumultuous Life, 1915-2011 / Alfred E. Holland,
Jr. -- Thunder over the Valley : Environmental Politics
and Indian Gaming in California / Tanis C. Thorne -- The
Invention of Old Sacramento : A Past for the Future / Lee
M.A. Simpson and Lisa C. Prince -- Epilogue: Sacramento,
Before and After the Gold Rush / Ty O. Smith.
520 2 "Often referred to as 'the Big Tomato, ' Sacramento is a
city whose makeup is significantly more complex than its
agriculture-based sobriquet implies. In River City and
Valley Life, seventeen contributors reveal the major
transformations to the natural and built environment that
have shaped Sacramento and its suburbs, residents,
politics, and economics throughout its history. The site
that would become Sacramento was settled in 1839, when
Johann Augustus Sutter attempted to convert his Mexican
land grant into New Helvetia (or 'New Switzerland'). It
was at Sutter's sawmill fifty miles to the east that gold
was first discovered, leading to the California Gold Rush
of 1849. Nearly overnight, Sacramento became a boomtown,
and cityhood followed in 1850. Ideally situated at the
confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers, the city
was connected by waterway to San Francisco and the
surrounding region. Combined with the area's warm and
sunny climate, the rivers provided the necessary water
supply for agriculture to flourish. The devastation
wrought by floods and cholera, however, took a huge toll
on early populations and led to the construction of an
extensive levee system that raised the downtown street
level to combat flooding. Great fortune came when local
entrepreneurs built the Central Pacific Railroad, and in
1869 it connected with the Union Pacific Railroad to form
the first transcontinental passage. Sacramento soon became
an industrial hub and major food-processing center. By
1879, it was named the state capital and seat of
government. In the twentieth century, the Sacramento area
benefitted from the federal government's major investment
in the construction and operation of three military bases
and other regional public works projects. Rapid
suburbanization followed along with the building of
highways, bridges, schools, parks, hydroelectric dams, and
the Rancho Seco nuclear power plant, which activists would
later shut down. Today, several tribal gaming resorts
attract patrons to the area, while 'Old Sacramento'
revitalizes the original downtown as it celebrates
Sacramento's pioneering past. This environmental history
of Sacramento provides a compelling case study of urban
and suburban development in California and the American
West. As the contributors show, Sacramento has seen its
landscape both ravaged and reborn. As blighted areas, rail
yards, and riverfronts have been reclaimed, and parks and
green spaces created and expanded, Sacramento's identity
continues to evolve. As it moves beyond its Gold Rush,
Transcontinental Railroad, and government-town heritage,
Sacramento remains a city and region deeply rooted in its
natural environment"--|cProvided by publisher.
588 0 Print version record.
590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic
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700 1 Castaneda, Christopher James,|d1959-|0https://id.loc.gov/
authorities/names/n92064175|eeditor.
700 1 Simpson, Lee M. A.,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
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776 08 |iPrint version:|tRiver city and valley life : an
environmental history of the Sacramento region.
|dPittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh
Press, ©2013|hviii, 406 pages|kHistory of the urban
environment.|z9780822962502
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