Sunset limited (Record no. 74195)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 02762nam a2200373Ia 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 385/.0978 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Orsi, Richard J. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Sunset limited |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Berkeley : |
| Name of publisher | University of California Press, |
| Year of publication | c2005. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xxii, 615 p. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Foundations: "These mountains look too ugly and I see too much work ahead": building the Southern Pacific Company, 1850/1930; Men of vision: Southern Pacific leaders, land, agriculture, and the development of California and the West -- Land settlement: "Stand on the rights of the Company and make a square fight of it": land-grant myths, conflicts with government, and squatterism; The Mussel Slough affair; A land of "well-tilled little farms": land-grant development; Promoting the far West: 1860s-1900s -- Water: "The satisfactory supply is yet undiscovered": the Southern Pacific as a pioneer water developer; "A great encouragement for others": private irrigation; "This splendid country is to be reclaimed": public irrigation; "The government is hard to deal with": federal reclamation -- Agriculture: "Evangel train": scientific agriculture; "The damndest railroading you ever heard of": marketing the produce of western farms -- Conservation: "Shall this destruction proceed?": wilderness preservation; "Putting our properties on the most conservative and scientific basis": resource conservation -- Epilogue -- A note on Southern Pacific Company manuscript sources. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Railroads |
| Topical Term | Water resources development |
| Topical Term | Land use |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10079949 |
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