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Backcountry Ghosts : California Homesteaders and the Making of a Dubious Dream.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (249 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781496225504
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Backcountry GhostsLOC classification:
  • F864 .S534 2021
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Not Much Else Beside -- 2. A Country of Plantations and Estates -- 3. Instant Relics -- 4. Hard-Bitten Country -- 5. Violent Paradise -- 6. Swindles and Salvation in the Antelope Valley -- 7. Mexican Lands in Mexican Hands -- 8. Floods and Utopias -- 9. Taming the Colorado Desert -- 10. Imperial Valley Dreams -- 11. Crashing the Orange Gates -- 12. Exacting Lives in the Breadbasket -- 13. The Rarified Bay Area -- 14. Among the Trees of the North Coast -- 15. Under the Shadow of Mount Lassen -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Josh Sides tells the remarkable stories of the men and women who claimed homesteads in California and began a perilous quest to attain the American Dream at virtually any cost.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Not Much Else Beside -- 2. A Country of Plantations and Estates -- 3. Instant Relics -- 4. Hard-Bitten Country -- 5. Violent Paradise -- 6. Swindles and Salvation in the Antelope Valley -- 7. Mexican Lands in Mexican Hands -- 8. Floods and Utopias -- 9. Taming the Colorado Desert -- 10. Imperial Valley Dreams -- 11. Crashing the Orange Gates -- 12. Exacting Lives in the Breadbasket -- 13. The Rarified Bay Area -- 14. Among the Trees of the North Coast -- 15. Under the Shadow of Mount Lassen -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Josh Sides tells the remarkable stories of the men and women who claimed homesteads in California and began a perilous quest to attain the American Dream at virtually any cost.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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