TY - BOOK AU - Cleland,Robert Glass AU - Dumke,Glenn S. TI - From wilderness to empire: a history of California. A combined and rev. ed. of From wilderness to empire, 1542-1900 & California in our time, 1900-1940 AV - F861 .C598 U1 - 979.4 PY - 1959/// CY - New York PB - Knopf KW - California KW - History N1 - Includes bibliography; Voyages and discoveries -- The search for a port of call -- Revival of the plan of settlement -- Portola and Serra, Conquest of the desert -- Impact of the foreigner -- Politics, missions and ranchos -- The era of the mountain men -- Propaganda and emigration -- Washington, Mexico and California -- From bear flag to statehood -- Gold -- Society in ferment -- California of the ranges -- The end of isolation -- Speculation, monopoly and discontent -- The flood tide of immigration -- A preface to California literature -- Turn of the century -- The era of reform -- The new regime -- Dynamite -- Durst and Mooney -- A changing state -- Prosperity and cultural development -- Bread with out scarceness -- Rivers of water -- The confused decade -- False prophets and false hopes -- Aliens and nomads -- Vanity fair -- Recent California literature -- California at mid-century -- the literature of California history N2 - Includes information on agricultural workers, aqueducts, Concepcion Arguello, banking, booms, California Indians, cattle industry, Central Pacific Railroad, Chinese, Samuel Clemens, Colorado River, earthquakes, emigration, Spanish explorations, Gold Rush, hydroelectric power, irrigation, labor, Lincoln-Roosevelt League, Jack London, Los Angeles, Monterey, John Muir, New Spain, Frank Norris, Oil, Pony Express, Gaspar de Portola, transcontinental railroads, rancheros, ranchos, Russia, Russian American Fur Company, Russian colonists, Sacramento Valley, San Francisco, San Joaquin Valley, Sierra Nevada Mountains, Robert F. Stockton, strikes, Union Pacific Railroad, water, etc UR - http://www.archive.org/details/fromwildernessto00clel UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL13529612M ER -