02762nam a2200373Ia 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054020003600095040002100131035002000152050002500172082001800197100002100215245014700236260005600383300001700439504005100456505118000507533015201687610004801839610003901887650003601926650004501962650003602007651005202043651005202095651005202147655002902199710001702228856012602245999001702371ebr10079949CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||040415s2005    cau     sb   s001 0 eng d  z0520200195 (cloth : alk. paper)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)7074580614aTF25.S68bO77 2005eb04a385/.09782221 aOrsi, Richard J.10aSunset limitedh[electronic resource] :bthe Southern Pacific Railroad and the development of the American West, 1850-1930 /cRichard J. Orsi.  aBerkeley :bUniversity of California Press,cc2005.  axxii, 615 p.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aFoundations: "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.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2009.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.20aSouthern Pacific Railroad CompanyxHistory.20aSouthern Pacific CompanyxHistory. 0aRailroadszCaliforniaxHistory. 0aWater resources developmentzWest (U.S.) 0aLand usezWest (U.S.)xHistory. 0aWest (U.S.)xEconomic conditionsy20th century. 0aWest (U.S.)xEconomic conditionsy19th century. 0aWest (U.S.)xEnvironmental conditionsxHistory. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10079949zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c54090d54090