Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 
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 CALU'ORNIA 
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 

Notes 
Bibliography 
Index 
Illustrations

About the Author

William Deverell is Professor of History at the University of Southern California and Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. He is the coeditor of California Progressivism Revisited (California, 1994) and coeditor of Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s (California, 2001).