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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15315566 Title: California : land of new beginnings Author: David Lavender Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1987], ©1972. ISBN/ISSN: 0803279248 9780803279247 0803228740 9780803228740 OCLC:15315566

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California : land of new beginnings

Author:	David Lavender
Publisher:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1987], ©1972.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Subjects	California -- History. California.
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Genre/Form:	History
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	David Lavender Find more information about:
ISBN:	0803279248 9780803279247 0803228740 9780803228740
OCLC Number:	15315566
Notes:	Reprint. Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1972. "A Bison book."
Description:	480 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Contents:	Part I: A touch of madness -- For greater glory -- First plantings -- Bricks without straw -- Part II: The advent of the Americans -- Illegal entry -- By land as well as by sea -- What do you do with a tame Indian? -- The schemers -- Sculpturing a war -- The impatient conquerors -- Part III: Lost in a golden wilderness -- "It made my heart thump" -- The deluge -- "Wild, free, disorderly, and grotesque" -- A harness for the tiger -- Organized violence -- The fevers of prosperity -- Ride the whirlwind -- Part IV: More stately plunder -- Still bigger bonanzas -- The transportation trap -- Mastering the land -- Boil and bubble -- Part V: The big shift -- The sound of the boom -- New brooms -- Water's dreadful price -- The creakings of the gravy train -- Part VI: Into now -- Double helpings of the same -- The juggernauts -- Protest!
Responsibility:	David Lavender ; afterword by the author.
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