Backcountry ghosts : California homesteaders and the making of a dubious dream / Josh Sides.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sides, Josh, 1972- author.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land settlement--California--History.

Land settlement.

Pioneers--California--Biography.

Pioneers.

Rural conditions.

Homestead law.

History.

Land tenure.

Farmers.

Ranchers.

California.

Ranchers--California--Biography.

Farmers--California--Biography.

Land tenure--California--History.

Homestead law--California--History.

Frontier and pioneer life--California.

Frontier and pioneer life.

California--Rural conditions.

California--History, Local.

Local history.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 232 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

California homesteaders and the making of a dubious dream

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

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 Colorado 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 and year.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781496225504

1496225503

Publisher Number:

40030669331

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.