Industrial Cowboys
by Igler, DavidFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-02-01
Publisher(s): Univ of California Pr
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An excellent history of the development of capitalism in the US West, focusing on a mammoth ranching operation, Miller & Lux. Igler tells the story of how two immigrant German butchers created a vast corporate structure by consolidating the West's most extensive land and water rights, creating new kinds of labor forces, and engineering the land for huge profit.
Table of Contents
| Illustrations | p. ix |
| Acknowledgements | p. xi |
| Introduction Industrial Cowboys in the Far West | p. 1 |
| Landscape, History, and Memory | p. 19 |
| San Francisco Networks and Hinterland Property | p. 35 |
| Privatizing the San Joaquin Landscape in the 1870s | p. 60 |
| Reclaiming the San Joaquin from Nature | p. 92 |
| Laboring on the Land | p. 122 |
| Confronting New Environments at the Century's Turn | p. 147 |
| Conclusion: Unreconstructed Cowboys in an Industrial Nation | p. 179 |
| Notes | p. 185 |
| Bibliography | p. 235 |
| Index | p. 255 |
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