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Article Excerpt
AFTER THE GOLD RUSH: TARNISHED DREAMS IN THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY
By David Vaught (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, 328 pp., illus., $55.00 cloth)
THIS IS THE STORY of a small group of farmers who arrived at Putah Creek, west of Sacramento, just after the Gold Rush, and of their "entrepreneurial relentlessness" in the pursuit of agricultural riches despite repeated natural and man-made disasters. Quickly replicating the community structures of their native Midwest and embracing large-scale...
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