From wilderness to empire
Subtitle: a history of California. A combined and rev. ed. of From wilderness to empire, 1542-1900 & California in our time, 1900-1940.
By: Edited and brought down to date by Glenn S. Dunke.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1959
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
Subjects: California -- History
Description: Includes information on agricultural workers, aqueducts, Concepcion Arguello, banking, booms, California Indians, cattle industry, Central Pacific Railroad, Chinese, Samuel Clemens, Colorado River, earthquakes, emigration, Spanish explorations, Gold Rush, hydroelectric power, irrigation, labor, Lincoln-Roosevelt League, Jack London, Los Angeles, Monterey, John Muir, New Spain, Frank Norris, Oil, Pony Express, Gaspar de Portola, transcontinental railroads, rancheros, ranchos, Russia, Russian American Fur Company, Russian colonists, Sacramento Valley, San Francisco, San Joaquin Valley, Sierra Nevada Mountains, Robert F. Stockton, strikes, Union Pacific Railroad, water, etc.
Notes: Includes bibliography.