TY - BOOK AU - Orsi,Richard J. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Sunset limited: the Southern Pacific Railroad and the development of the American West, 1850-1930 AV - TF25.S68 O77 2005eb U1 - 385/.0978 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Southern Pacific Railroad Company KW - History KW - Southern Pacific Company KW - Railroads KW - California KW - Water resources development KW - West (U.S.) KW - Land use KW - Economic conditions KW - 20th century KW - 19th century KW - Environmental conditions KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://ezproxy.taylors.edu.my/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/taylorscollege/Doc?id=10079949 ER -