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Backcountry Ghosts California Homesteaders and the Making of a Dubious Dream / Josh Sides.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sides, Josh, 1972- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ranchers.
- Pioneers.
- Land tenure.
- Land settlement.
- Homestead law.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Farmers.
- California--Rural conditions.
- California.
- Frontier and pioneer life--California.
- Homestead law--California--History.
- Land tenure--California--History.
- Farmers--California--Biography.
- Ranchers--California--Biography.
- Pioneers--California--Biography.
- Land settlement--California--History.
- California--History, Local.
- Genre:
- Local history.
- History.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Josh Sides tells the remarkable stories of homesteaders in California, both those who succeeded and those who did not"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4962-2550-3
- OCLC:
- 1237525825
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