First published in 1944, The Boom of the Eighties is a companion volume to The Cattle on a Thousand Hills: Southern California 1850-80 by Robert Glass Cleland. Boom takes the story forward from the early days of Anglo settlement of the region in the nineteenth century to the period when the immigration explosion created the Southern California of the twentieth century. The 1880s were remarkable in Southern California history for a land boom of unprecedented proportions. In the decades after the Civil War, the great ranchos of Southern California were breaking up, and vine and citrus culture gradually replaced the Spanish-Mexican pastoral economy. The arrival of the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1876 increased immigration, and prospective settlers swarmed in from most of the United States and many countries of Europe. Millions of dollars changed hands in realty transactions: fortunes were made and lost. The city of Los Angeles, nucleus of the boom, increased in size by 500 percent. Many new suburban towns were incorporated. Where once cattle had grazed on the Mexican ranchos, the American citizen built trolley lines, founded banks, and irrigated orange groves.

The Boom of the Eighties in Southern California (California Classics)

History

Dumke, Glenn S.

Americas

Huntington Library Press

Well received by critics when first published in 1941, The Cattle on a Thousand Hills describes Southern California in its transition from a cattle frontier of Mexican rule and culture to an agricultural American community on the eve of great industrial and urban expansion. The story includes the conversion of great grazing ranchos into farms and settlements, the gradual displacement of frontier violence and instability by a more restrained, law-abiding society, and the impact of Anglo-Saxon customs and institutions upon the pastoral life of the Spanish-Californians.

The Cattle on a Thousand Hills: Southern California, 1850-1880 (The Huntington Library Classics)

Cleland, Robert Glass

The Irvine Ranch in Orange County is one of the largest properties remaining from California’s Rancho Era. In 1952 the Huntington Library first published the history of this gigantic ranchfrom the days of the Gabrielino Indians, through the rule by Spain and Mexico, to the ownership and administration by four generations of the Irvine family. The ranch was a combination of three large land grants that went, wholly or in part, into the making of the Irvine property.Dr. Cleland tells the history of these grants and provides reproductions of old maps and portraits of early owners. Using ranch records and many other sources, Cleland combines sound historical scholarship with a high degree of literary skill to tell the story of the ranch in the larger setting of the history of the region and the state. An Epilogue by Robert V. Hine describes the changes that have taken place since the book was first published, and tells of the long-range plans for light industry, residential and commercial use of the land, and for a University of California campus.

The Irvine Ranch (The Huntington Library Classics)

Isaias W. Hellman, a man "born with a genius for finance," was chiefly responsible for the establishment of the Farmers and Merchants Bank in 1871. As its president for several decades, Hellman determined many of its politics; the bank reflected his integrity and relied on his business acumen. The story of the Farmers and Merchants Bank is that of the development of Los Angeles, particularly in the formative period from 1870 to 1900.

Isaias W. Hellman and the Farmers and Merchants Bank

Putnam, Frank B.

In Jack London &amp; the Klondike Franklin Walker presents for the first time an accurate and detailed account of the young London's experiences in the famous gold rush that furnished the substance for his most successful books. His exciting winter in the Yukon is recreated through quotations from his fiction, travel diaries, and the testimony of his companions. First published in 1966, at a time when London was still regarded by many as little more than a writer of stories for children, this was to be the first of many studies of his outstanding contributions to literature. The book remains a definitive study of the most crucial phase of Jack London's career.

Jack London and the Klondike: The Genesis of an American Writer

Literature & Fiction

Walker, Franklin

History & Criticism

In this collection of British drawings, about sixty artists are represented, including most of the significant draftsmen of the time. The introduction gives a history of the drawings in the Huntington collection and a commentary on the style and character of the artists included in the catalogue.

Early British Drawings in the Huntington Collection, 1600-1750

Arts & Photography

Wark, Robert R.

This is more than a reference tool for collectors and bibliographers; through its use one gains a conspectus of American fiction during its formative years, and the social historian will therefore find it valuable as a source for interpretive studies.

American Fiction, 1851-1875

Wright, Lyle H.

United States

American Fiction, 1876-1900

This book is the first comprehensive study of the basic principles that govern the editing of literary texts. The focus is on English and American literature, and discussion is illuminated by a multitude of examples from the Renaissance to the present time. It deals with the topics that are essential to all editorial work and conveys attitudes and approaches that should animate all literary scholarship.

Principles of Textual Criticism

Thorpe, James

What was John Milton really like as a human being? What can we learn about his poems from seeing them in the context of the fundamental nature of their author? This book offers a fresh way of thinking about Milton and his writings by exploring the intimate and complex relation between a close understanding of his poems and a deep understanding of their maker.

John Milton: The Inner Life

Biographies & Memoirs

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