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Railroad crossing : Californians and the railroad, 1850-1910

Title: Railroad crossing : Californians and the railroad, 1850-1910 / William Deverell.
Author: Deverell, William, 1962-
Publication: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Description

xiii, 278 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

Railroads > California > History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: The Varieties of Railroad Antagonism -- 1. "What Is This Railroad to Do for Us?" -- 2. "California Netted With Iron Tracks" -- 3. A Volcano at Any Moment: The Pullman Strike in California -- 4. The Los Angeles "Free Harbor Fight" -- 5. Pens as Swords: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Railroad Opposition -- 6. "Let Us Agitate and Agitate": Progressives and the Railroad -- Epilogue: Building an Octopus.

ISBN

0520082141 (alk. paper)

LCCN

92040128

OCLC

27034326
ocm27034326

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries