The Resource Backcountry ghosts : California homesteaders and the making of a dubious dream, Josh Sides
Backcountry ghosts : California homesteaders and the making of a dubious dream, Josh Sides
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The item Backcountry ghosts : California homesteaders and the making of a dubious dream, Josh Sides represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
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The item Backcountry ghosts : California homesteaders and the making of a dubious dream, Josh Sides represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
- Summary
- "Josh Sides tells the remarkable stories of homesteaders in California, both those who succeeded and those who did not"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiv, 232 pages
- Contents
-
- Not much else beside
- A country of plantations and estates
- Instant relics
- Hard-bitten country
- Violent paradise
- Swindles and salvation in the Antelope Valley
- Mexican lands in Mexican hands
- Floods and utopias
- Taming the California desert
- Imperial Valley dreams
- Crashing the orange gates
- Exacting lives in the breadbasket
- The rarified Bay Area
- Among the trees of the North Coast
- Under the shadow of Mount Lassen
- Conclusion: Remembering homesteading
- Appendix: Number of homesteads per county per year
- Isbn
- 9781496213211
- Label
- Backcountry ghosts : California homesteaders and the making of a dubious dream
- Title
- Backcountry ghosts
- Title remainder
- California homesteaders and the making of a dubious dream
- Statement of responsibility
- Josh Sides
- Title variation
- California homesteaders and the making of a dubious dream
- Subject
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- Farmers -- California -- Biography
- Frontier and pioneer life -- California
- Homestead law -- California -- History
- Land settlement -- California -- History
- California -- History, Local
- Pioneers -- California -- Biography
- Ranchers -- California -- Biography
- Land tenure -- California -- History
- California -- Rural conditions
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Josh Sides tells the remarkable stories of homesteaders in California, both those who succeeded and those who did not"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- collective biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1972-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sides, Josh
- Dewey number
- 979.4
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- F864
- LC item number
- .S586
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Land settlement
- Pioneers
- Ranchers
- Farmers
- Land tenure
- Homestead law
- Frontier and pioneer life
- California
- California
- Label
- Backcountry ghosts : California homesteaders and the making of a dubious dream, Josh Sides
- Bar code
-
- 31223141789868
- 31223141789892
- 31223137457744
- 31223141789876
- 31223141789884
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-213) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Not much else beside -- A country of plantations and estates -- Instant relics -- Hard-bitten country -- Violent paradise -- Swindles and salvation in the Antelope Valley -- Mexican lands in Mexican hands -- Floods and utopias -- Taming the California desert -- Imperial Valley dreams -- Crashing the orange gates -- Exacting lives in the breadbasket -- The rarified Bay Area -- Among the trees of the North Coast -- Under the shadow of Mount Lassen -- Conclusion: Remembering homesteading -- Appendix: Number of homesteads per county per year
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 232 pages
- Isbn
- 9781496213211
- Lccn
- 2020024000
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1157613005
- Label
- Backcountry ghosts : California homesteaders and the making of a dubious dream, Josh Sides
- Bar code
-
- 31223141789868
- 31223141789892
- 31223137457744
- 31223141789876
- 31223141789884
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-213) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Not much else beside -- A country of plantations and estates -- Instant relics -- Hard-bitten country -- Violent paradise -- Swindles and salvation in the Antelope Valley -- Mexican lands in Mexican hands -- Floods and utopias -- Taming the California desert -- Imperial Valley dreams -- Crashing the orange gates -- Exacting lives in the breadbasket -- The rarified Bay Area -- Among the trees of the North Coast -- Under the shadow of Mount Lassen -- Conclusion: Remembering homesteading -- Appendix: Number of homesteads per county per year
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 232 pages
- Isbn
- 9781496213211
- Lccn
- 2020024000
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1157613005
Subject
- Farmers -- California -- Biography
- Frontier and pioneer life -- California
- Homestead law -- California -- History
- Land settlement -- California -- History
- California -- History, Local
- Pioneers -- California -- Biography
- Ranchers -- California -- Biography
- Land tenure -- California -- History
- California -- Rural conditions
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