Orsi, Richard J. <br/><br/>
Sunset limited  the Southern Pacific Railroad and the development of the American West, 1850-1930 /  [electronic resource] : 
Richard J. Orsi. 
 - Berkeley :  University of California Press,  c2005. 
 - xxii, 615 p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Foundations: "These mountains look too ugly and I see too much work ahead": building the Southern Pacific Company, 1850/1930; Men of vision: Southern Pacific leaders, land, agriculture, and the development of California and the West -- Land settlement: "Stand on the rights of the Company and make a square fight of it": land-grant myths, conflicts with government, and squatterism; The Mussel Slough affair; A land of "well-tilled little farms": land-grant development; Promoting the far West: 1860s-1900s -- Water: "The satisfactory supply is yet undiscovered": the Southern Pacific as a pioneer water developer; "A great encouragement for others": private irrigation; "This splendid country is to be reclaimed": public irrigation; "The government is hard to deal with": federal reclamation -- Agriculture: "Evangel train": scientific agriculture; "The damndest railroading you ever heard of": marketing the produce of western farms -- Conservation: "Shall this destruction proceed?": wilderness preservation; "Putting our properties on the most conservative and scientific basis": resource conservation -- Epilogue -- A note on Southern Pacific Company manuscript sources. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2009. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Southern Pacific Railroad Company--History.<br/>Southern Pacific Company--History.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Railroads--History.--California<br/>Water resources development--West (U.S.)<br/>Land use--History.--West (U.S.)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>West (U.S.)--Economic conditions--20th century.<br/>West (U.S.)--Economic conditions--19th century.<br/>West (U.S.)--Environmental conditions--History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TF25.S68  / O77 2005eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>385/.0978