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Backcountry ghosts, California homesteaders and the making of a dubious dream, Josh Sides - hardback
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  • "Josh Sides tells the remarkable stories of homesteaders in California, both those who succeeded and those who did not"--, Provided by publisher
Table of 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
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  • eng
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  • non fiction
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  • xiv, 232 pages, illustrations, maps, 24 cm
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  • 9781496213211
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