Industrial Cowboys

An excellent history of the development of capitalism in the US West, focusing on a mammoth ranching operation, Miller & Lux. Igler tells the story of how two immigrant German butchers created a vast corporate structure by consolidating the West's most extensive land and water rights, creating new kinds of labor forces, and engineering the land for huge profit.

Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction Industrial Cowboys in the Far West	p. 1
Landscape, History, and Memory	p. 19
San Francisco Networks and Hinterland Property	p. 35
Privatizing the San Joaquin Landscape in the 1870s	p. 60
Reclaiming the San Joaquin from Nature	p. 92
Laboring on the Land	p. 122
Confronting New Environments at the Century's Turn	p. 147
Conclusion: Unreconstructed Cowboys in an Industrial Nation	p. 179
Notes	p. 185
Bibliography	p. 235
Index	p. 255
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