From Wilderness to Empire: A History of California. A Combined and Rev. Ed. of From Wilderness to Empire, 1542-1900 & California in Our Time, 1900-1940

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Knopf, 1959 - California - 445 pages
Includes information on agricultural workers, aqueducts, Concepcion Arguello, banking, booms, California Indians, cattle industry, Central Pacific Railroad, Chinese, Samuel Clemens, Colorado River, earthquakes, emigration, Spanish explorations, Gold Rush, hydroelectric power, irrigation, labor, Lincoln-Roosevelt League, Jack London, Los Angeles, Monterey, John Muir, New Spain, Frank Norris, Oil, Pony Express, Gaspar de Portola, transcontinental railroads, rancheros, ranchos, Russia, Russian American Fur Company, Russian colonists, Sacramento Valley, San Francisco, San Joaquin Valley, Sierra Nevada Mountains, Robert F. Stockton, strikes, Union Pacific Railroad, water, etc.

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Contents

Voyages and Discoveries
3
Revival of the Plan of Settlement
21
Conquest of the Desert
38
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