Backcountry Ghosts : California Homesteaders and the Making of a Dubious Dream / / Josh Sides |
Autore | Sides Josh <1972-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, NE : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [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 genere / forma |
Local history
History Biographies. |
ISBN | 1-4962-2550-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794441703321 |
Sides Josh <1972-> | ||
Lincoln, NE : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2021] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Backcountry Ghosts : California Homesteaders and the Making of a Dubious Dream / / Josh Sides |
Autore | Sides Josh <1972-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, NE : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [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 genere / forma |
Local history
History Biographies. |
ISBN | 1-4962-2550-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817043803321 |
Sides Josh <1972-> | ||
Lincoln, NE : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2021] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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