Not much else beside -- A country of plantations and estates -- Instant relics -- Hard-bitten country -- Violent paradise -- Swindles and salvation in the Antelope Valley -- Mexican lands in Mexican hands -- Floods and utopias -- Taming the Colorado Desert -- Imperial Valley dreams -- Crashing the orange gates -- Exacting lives in the breadbasket -- The rarified Bay Area -- Among the trees of the North Coast -- Under the shadow of Mount Lassen -- Conclusion: Remembering homesteading -- Appendix: Number of homesteads per county and year
Summary
"Josh Sides tells the remarkable stories of homesteaders in California, both those who succeeded and those who did not"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographic references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed January 14, 2022)
