Founding the Far West : California, Oregon, and Nevada, 1840-1890 /
Founding the Far West is an ambitious and vividly written narrative of the early years of statehood and statesmanship in three pivotal western territories. Johnson offers a model example of a new approach to history that is transforming our ideas of how America moved west, one that breaks the mold o...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1992.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
