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- catalog abstract ""Few industrial enterprises left a more enduring imprint on the American West than Miller & Lux, a vast meatpacking conglomerate started by two San Francisco butchers in 1858. Industrial Cowboys examines how Henry Miller and Charles Lux, two German immigrants, assembled the West's most extensive land and water rights, swayed legislatures and courts, monopolized western beef markets, and imposed their corporate will on California's natural environment. Writing with clarity and originality, David Igler uses one fascinating case study to illuminate the industrial development and environmental transformation of the American West during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." "The process by which two neighborhood butchers turned themselves into landed industrialists depended to an extraordinary degree on the acquisition, manipulation, and exploitation of natural resources. Igler examines the broader impact of western industrialism - as exemplified by Miller & Lux - on landscapes and waterscapes, bringing to the forefront the important issues of land reclamation, water politics, San Francisco's unique business environment, and the city's relation to its surrounding hinterlands. He provides a rich discussion of the social relations engineered by Miller & Lux, from the dispossession of Californio rancheros to the ethnic segmentation of the firm's massive labor force."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12214378.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Few industrial enterprises left a more enduring imprint on the American West than Miller & Lux, a vast meatpacking conglomerate started by two San Francisco butchers in 1858. Industrial Cowboys examines how Henry Miller and Charles Lux, two German immigrants, assembled the West's most extensive land and water rights, swayed legislatures and courts, monopolized western beef markets, and imposed their corporate will on California's natural environment. Writing with clarity and originality, David Igler uses one fascinating case study to illuminate the industrial development and environmental transformation of the American West during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."".
- catalog description ""The process by which two neighborhood butchers turned themselves into landed industrialists depended to an extraordinary degree on the acquisition, manipulation, and exploitation of natural resources. Igler examines the broader impact of western industrialism - as exemplified by Miller & Lux - on landscapes and waterscapes, bringing to the forefront the important issues of land reclamation, water politics, San Francisco's unique business environment, and the city's relation to its surrounding hinterlands. He provides a rich discussion of the social relations engineered by Miller & Lux, from the dispossession of Californio rancheros to the ethnic segmentation of the firm's massive labor force."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-253) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 267 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0520226585 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog spatial "West (U.S.)".
- catalog subject "333.76/0978 21".
- catalog subject "Animal industry West (U.S.) History.".
- catalog subject "Big business West (U.S.) History.".
- catalog subject "Cattle trade West (U.S.) History.".
- catalog subject "HD9433.U52 M554 2001".
- catalog subject "Industrialization West (U.S.) History.".
- catalog subject "Land use West (U.S.) History.".
- catalog subject "Miller & Lux. History.".
- catalog subject "Packing-houses West (U.S.) History.".
- catalog subject "Water rights West (U.S.) History.".
- catalog title "Industrial cowboys : Miller & Lux and the transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920 / David Igler.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".