City-Makers: The Story of Southern California's First Boom

City-Makers: The Story of Southern California's First Boom image
ISBN-10:

0870460390

ISBN-13:

9780870460395

Author(s): Nadeau, Remi A.
Edition: 4th
Released: Jan 01, 1977
Publisher: Interurban Pr
Format: Hardcover, 168 pages
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Description:

Concentrated in time (1868-87), circumscribed in locale, this tells of that decade of the seventies when the ""city makers"", by erecting a railroad center, transformed Los Angeles from an adobe pueblo into a city. From the first influx of farmers and immigrants, to the first rails, here were beginnings of the land boom which was paralleled only by the speculations in silver, as camps opened up, its traffic a source of considerable struggle. And with the expansion of rails, the bonanza of the mines, came the concomitants of lawlessness and violence, as vigilante and robber and bandido had their way.











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