The Cattle on Thousand Hills : Southern California - 1850 - 1870
San Marino CA: The Huntington Library, 1941.
First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Item #16699
"History of the rapid transition in southern California in a 20 year period, 1850-1870: the impact of Anglo-Saxon customs and institutions on Spanish-Californian pastoral life, the breakup of large ranchos and the increase of agriculture, and the beginnings of urban economic communities." First Edition, First Printing of this classic economic and social history of the transformation of Southern Californa during the period between the Gold Rush and the completion of the Pacific Railroad. Printed by the Ward Ritchie Press.; xiv, 327 pages.
Price: $39.95