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Backcountry Ghosts: California Homesteaders and the Making of a Dubious Dream

2021 Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska ;ISBN: 9781496213211 ;ISBN: 1496213211 ;EISBN: 9781496225504 ;EISBN: 1496225503 ;DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv1gbrzjp ;OCLC: 1237405012 ;LCCallNum: F864 .S586 2021

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Title:
Backcountry Ghosts: California Homesteaders and the Making of a Dubious Dream
Author: Sides, Josh
Subjects: American Studies ; Biography ; California ; California-History, Local ; California-Rural conditions ; Farmers ; Farmers-California-Biography ; Frontier and pioneer life ; Frontier and pioneer life-California ; HISTORY ; History, Local ; Homestead law ; Homestead law-California-History ; Land settlement ; Land settlement-California-History ; Land tenure ; Land tenure-California-History ; Pioneers ; Pioneers-California-Biography ; Ranchers ; Ranchers-California-Biography ; Rural conditions ; State & Local ; United States ; West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Description: California is an infamously tough place to be poor: home to about half of the entire nation's homeless population, burdened by staggering home prices and unsustainable rental rates, California is a state in crisis. But it wasn't always that way, as prize-winning historian Josh Sides reveals in Backcountry Ghosts . In 1862 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, the most ambitious and sweeping social policy in the history of the United States. In the Golden State more than a hundred thousand people filed homesteading claims between 1863 and the late 1930s. More than sixty thousand Californians succeeded, claiming about ten million acres. In Backcountry Ghosts Josh Sides tells the histories of these Californian homesteaders, their toil and enormous patience, successes and failures, doggedness in the face of natural elements and disasters, and resolve to defend hard-earned land for themselves and their children. While some of these homesteaders were fulfilling the American Dream-that all Americans should have the opportunity to own land regardless of their background or station-others used the Homestead Act to add to already vast landholdings or control water or mineral rights. Sides recovers the fascinating stories of individual homesteaders in California, both those who succeeded and those who did not, and the ways they shaped the future of California and the American West. Backcountry Ghosts reveals the dangers of American dreaming in a state still reeling from the ambitions that led to the Great Recession.
Publisher: Lincoln: Bison Books
Creation Date: 2021
Format: 256
Language: English
Identifier: ISBN: 9781496213211
ISBN: 1496213211
EISBN: 9781496225504
EISBN: 1496225503
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv1gbrzjp
OCLC: 1237405012
LCCallNum: F864 .S586 2021
Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete

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Backcountry Ghosts: California Homesteaders and the Making of a Dubious Dream

2021 Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska ;ISBN: 9781496213211 ;ISBN: 1496213211 ;EISBN: 9781496225504 ;EISBN: 1496225503 ;DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv1gbrzjp ;OCLC: 1237405012 ;LCCallNum: F864 .S586 2021

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