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Backcountry Ghosts : California Homesteaders and the Making of a Dubious Dream / / Josh Sides



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Autore: Sides Josh <1972-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Backcountry Ghosts : California Homesteaders and the Making of a Dubious Dream / / Josh Sides Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lincoln, NE : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2021]
©[2021]
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 979.4
Soggetto topico: Ranchers
Pioneers
Land tenure
Land settlement
Homestead law
Frontier and pioneer life
Farmers
California - Rural conditions
Frontier and pioneer life - California
Homestead law - California - History
Land tenure - California - History
Farmers - California
Ranchers - California
Pioneers - California
Land settlement - California - History
Soggetto geografico: California
California History, Local
Soggetto genere / forma: Local history
History
Biographies.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Not much else beside -- A country of plantations and estates -- Instant relics -- Hard-bitten country -- Violent paradise -- Swindles and salvation in the Antelope Valley -- Mexican lands in Mexican hands -- Floods and utopias -- Taming the California desert -- Imperial Valley dreams -- Crashing the orange gates -- Exacting lives in the breadbasket -- The rarified Bay Area -- Among the trees of the North Coast -- Under the shadow of Mount Lassen -- Conclusion: Remembering homesteading -- Appendix: Number of homesteads per county per year.
Sommario/riassunto: "Josh Sides tells the remarkable stories of homesteaders in California, both those who succeeded and those who did not"--
Titolo autorizzato: Backcountry Ghosts  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4962-2550-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910794441703321
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