Drought and floods in the 1860s. Annihilation of SoCal cattle industry. Switch to irrigated fodder in 1870s. Butchertowns and Chicago packers. Transformation of the landscape.
Cattle replace antelope.
Canals and cattle fodder along the San Joaquin river. Hydraulic mine debris. Fighting the mining industry. Debris Commission and 1884 court decision. Experiments in SoCal colonies, by Chinese in Delta, by Harazthny in Sonoma, Fresno colonies, by horticultualists like Burbank, by UC extension scientists like Hilgard.