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.

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.

Includes bibliography.

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