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000403910 1001_ $$aOrsi, Richard J.
000403910 24510 $$aSunset limited:$$bthe Southern Pacific Railroad and the development of the American West, 1850-1930 /$$cRichard J. Orsi.
000403910 260__ $$aBerkeley :$$bUniversity of California Press,$$cc2005.
000403910 300__ $$axxii, 615 p.
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000403910 337__ $$acomputer$$2rdamedia
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000403910 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000403910 5050_ $$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.
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