Industrial Cowboys Miller and Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920

Name: Industrial Cowboys Miller and Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920
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ISBN: 9780520245341

ISBN-10: 0520245342

ISBN-13: 9780520245341

Edition: 2010

Authors: David Igler

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Few industrial enterprises left a more enduring imprint on the American West than Miller & Lux, a vast meatpacking conglomerate started by two San Francisco butchers in 1858.Industrial Cowboysexamines how Henry Miller and Charles Lux, two German immigrants, consolidated the West's most extensive land and water rights, swayed legislatures and courts, monopolized western beef markets, and imposed their corporate will on California's natural environment. Told with clarity and originality, this story uses one fascinating case study to illuminate the industrial development and environmental transformation of the American West during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The process…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/28/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 281
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

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



Illustrations


Acknowledgements


Introduction Industrial Cowboys in the Far West



Landscape, History, and Memory



San Francisco Networks and Hinterland Property



Privatizing the San Joaquin Landscape in the 1870s



Reclaiming the San Joaquin from Nature



Laboring on the Land



Confronting New Environments at the Century's Turn


Conclusion: Unreconstructed Cowboys in an Industrial Nation


Notes


Bibliography


Index