Table of Contents

List of Illustrations 
Acknowledgments 
Introduction: Industrial Cowboys in the Far West 
1. The San Joaquin Valley: Landscape, History,and Memory 
2. Laying the Foundation: San Francisco Networks and Hinterland Property 
3· Privatizing the San Joaquin Landscape in the 1870s
4· Lux v. Haggin: Reclaiming the San Joaquin from Nature 
5· Laboring on the Land 
6. Confronting New Environments at the Century's Turn 
Conclusion: Unreconstructed Cowboys in an Industrial Nation 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index 
 

About the Author

David Igler is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine.

Reviews

"This deeply textured narrative of power, adaptation, and human agency stands as a welcome, and long overdue, contribution to the history of American industrialism." - Enterprise and Society "Ambitiously conceived, abundantly researched, effectively plotted, elegantly composed, and concisely argued, Igler's study of the rise and fall of Miller & Lux will be hailed as a landmark contribution. No other work on late nineteenth-century California so stylishly and convincingly brings together the social, economic, and ecological dimensions of the state's post-Gold Rush development." - Stephen Aron, author of How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay "David Igler writes this intriguing history at the intersection of landscape, work and industry. He places the emergence of Western resource based corporations at the center of a set of cultural, economic, and natural changes that intersect and ramify in unforeseen directions." - Richard White, author of "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own": A New History of the American West"