Founding the Far West : California, Oregon, and Nevada, 1840-1890 / David Alan Johnson.
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TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1992.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 474 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520910980
- 0520910982
- 0585200475
- 9780585200477
- West (U.S.) -- Politics and government
- West (U.S.) -- Economic conditions
- California -- Politics and government -- 1846-1850
- California -- Economic conditions
- Oregon Territory -- Politics and government
- Oregon -- Politics and government -- 1859-1950
- Oregon -- Economic conditions
- Nevada -- Politics and government
- Nevada -- Economic conditions
- HISTORY -- State & Local -- General
- Economic history
- Politics and government
- United States -- Oregon Territory
- California
- Nevada
- Oregon
- West United States
- Siedlung
- Kalifornien
- Oregon
- Nevada
- USA -- Weststaaten
- Regions & Countries - Americas
- History & Archaeology
- United States Local History
- Geschichte (1840-1890)
- 1846-1950
- 979/.02 20
- F593 .J59 1992eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-459) and index.
Print version record.
I: Politics and Society. 1: Politics in a Divided World: California, 1769-1840. 2: Farming and Politics: Oregon, 1835-1857. 3: "The Land for the Old Californian": Nevada, 1849-1864 -- II: Personality, Ideology, and Political Culture. 4: A New Regime: California, 1849. Diversity and Gold Rush Democracy. The Dilemmas of Democratic Freedom. 5: A Liberal Commonwealth: Oregon, 1857. Nineteenth-Century Commonwealthmen. Virtue and Interest. 6: Between Golden and Gilded Ages: Nevada, 1864. The Old Californians. The Corporation and the Individual -- III: History and Memory. 7: Progress and Poverty: California, 1849-1885. 8: Crisis and Renewal: Oregon, 1857-1890. 9: Industry and Exodus: Nevada, 1864-1885.
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