02762nam a2200373Ia 4500 ebr10079949 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 040415s2005 cau sb s001 0 eng d 0520200195 (cloth : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)70745806 TF25.S68 O77 2005eb 385/.0978 22 Orsi, Richard J. Sunset limited [electronic resource] : the Southern Pacific Railroad and the development of the American West, 1850-1930 / Richard J. Orsi. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005. xxii, 615 p. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Southern Pacific Railroad Company History. Southern Pacific Company History. Railroads California History. Water resources development West (U.S.) Land use West (U.S.) History. West (U.S.) Economic conditions 20th century. West (U.S.) Economic conditions 19th century. West (U.S.) Environmental conditions History. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10079949 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 54090 54090