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Industrial cowboys [electronic resource] : Miller & Lux and the transformation of the far west, 1850-1920 / David Igler.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Igler, David, 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Miller & Lux--History.
- Miller & Lux.
- Cattle trade--West (U.S.)--History.
- Cattle trade.
- Animal industry--West (U.S.)--History.
- Animal industry.
- Packing-houses--West (U.S.)--History.
- Packing-houses.
- Land use--West (U.S.)--History.
- Land use.
- Water rights--West (U.S.)--History.
- Water rights.
- Big business--West (U.S.)--History.
- Big business.
- Industrialization--West (U.S.)--History.
- Industrialization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (284 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Few industrial enterprises left a more enduring imprint on the American West than Miller & Lux, a vast meatpacking conglomerate started by two San Francisco butchers in 1858. Industrial Cowboys examines how Henry Miller and Charles Lux, two German immigrants, consolidated the West's most extensive land and water rights, swayed legislatures and courts, monopolized western beef markets, and imposed their corporate will on California's natural environment.
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Industrial Cowboys in the Far West; 1. The San Joaquin Valley; 2. Laying the Foundation; 3. Privatizing the San Joaquin Landscape in the 1870's; 4. Lux v. Haggin; 5. Laboring on the Land; 6. Confronting New Environments at the Century's Turn; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-253) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-520-93893-3
- 1-59734-676-4
- OCLC:
- 475928788
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