Backcountry Ghosts : California Homesteaders and the Making of a Dubious Dream / / Josh Sides
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| Autore: |
Sides Josh <1972->
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| Titolo: |
Backcountry Ghosts : California Homesteaders and the Making of a Dubious Dream / / Josh Sides
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-4962-2550-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910817043803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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