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|a Orsi, Richard J.
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|b the Southern Pacific Railroad and the development of the American West, 1850-1930 /
|c Richard J. Orsi.
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|a Foundations: "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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|a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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|a Southern Pacific Railroad Company
|x History.
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|a Southern Pacific Company
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|a Railroads
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|a Water resources development
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|a Land use
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|a West (U.S.)
|x Economic conditions
|y 20th century.
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|a West (U.S.)
|x Economic conditions
|y 19th century.
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|a West (U.S.)
|x Environmental conditions
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