Author: Smithsonian InstitutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Official Report of the California State Agricultural Society's Fourth Annual Fair, Cattle Show and Industrial Exhibition, Held at Stockton, Sept. 29th, 30th, Oct. 1st and 2d, 1857
Author: California State Agricultural Society (Sacramento, Calif.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The Grapes of Conquest
Author: Julia Ornelas-HigdonPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496224272
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The Grapes of Conquest examines the origins of the wine industry at the California missions, as well as its subsequent commercialization in nineteenth-century California under Mexican and American governance.
After the Gold Rush
Author: David VaughtPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801897807
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
A dramatic history of a group of families in post-gold rush California who turned to agriculture when mining failed. “It is a glorious country,” exclaimed Stephen J. Field, the future U.S. Supreme Court justice, upon arriving in California in 1849. Field’s pronouncement was more than just an expression of exuberance. For an electrifying moment, he and another 100,000 hopeful gold miners found themselves face-to-face with something commensurate to their capacity to dream. Most failed to hit pay dirt in gold. Thereafter, one illustrative group of them struggled to make a living in wheat, livestock, and fruit along Putah Creek in the lower Sacramento Valley. Like Field, they never forgot that first “glorious” moment in California when anything seemed possible. In After the Gold Rush, David Vaught examines the hard-luck miners-turned-farmers—the Pierces, Greenes, Montgomerys, Careys, and others—who refused to admit a second failure, faced flood and drought, endured monumental disputes and confusion over land policy, and struggled to come to grips with the vagaries of local, national, and world markets. Their dramatic story exposes the underside of the American dream and the haunting consequences of trying to strike it rich. “An excellent history of farming in the Sacramento Valley in the late nineteenth century.” —California History “Vaught tells a riveting story of two generations of farmers who “committed themselves not only to the market but to community life as well.” He argues that these twin commitments, born of their failures in the gold fields, were an essential part of the culture of American capitalism that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century.” —Business History Review “Vaught set himself the goal of writing a “new” rural history of California, examining the state’s wheat farmers in their social and cultural contexts. In After the Gold Rush, he achieves his goal admirably.” —Journal of American History “An agricultural history that weaves together an unpredictable creek, a fluctuating market, and the perseverance of the American Dream.” —Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2008 Winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association
Catalogue of Publications of Societies and of Periodical Works Belonging to the Smithsonian Institution, January 1, 1866
Author: Smithsonian InstitutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections
Author: Bibliography of North American Conchology Previous to the Year 1860
Author: William Greene BinneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mollusks
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections
Author: Smithsonian InstitutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mollusks
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Proposal for Replacement Beds
Author: Eau Claire ManorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nursing homes
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
California State Fair
Author: Carson HendricksPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738580890
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Starting in San Francisco in 1854, the California State Fair and Exposition began as a vehicle to showcase, encourage, and expand California's agricultural industry. It quickly became an attraction for thousands of residents, both local and from across the state. By 1884, it occupied the largest exhibit hall in the United States. Within 100 years, it became the largest fair in the country by adding horse racing, elaborate exhibits from every county in the state and from around the world, thrill rides, top-flight entertainment, and, of course, the best food. The original goal of the fair was met some 50 years ago, as California remains the nation's top producer of agricultural products.
Vanishing Landscapes
Author: William L. PrestonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520040533
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description