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- catalog abstract ""Examining seven states of the Far West, Eugene Moehring reveals how Americans used cities and towns to build their Western empire, developing their urban centers with wealth from the hinterlands - San Francisco, for example, built its initial fortune on the gold of the Mother Lode - and supplying their growing populations with foodstuffs and other essential resources from their rural tributaries while at the same time using their regional connections as outlets for the goods and services of the cities. Towns were also used as bases for further advance into hitherto unsettled territories especially into Native American lands." "The scope of Moehring's inquiry is vast, incorporating such themes as the roles of railroads, local and regional capital investment and boosterism in the creation of municipal centers, interactions with Indians: the relationship between water and town development; the importance of agricultural centers in reinforcing trade; the role of urban competition; and the part that cultural and racial superiority assumptions played in creating the American urban framework."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13148069.
- catalog coverage "United States Territorial expansion.".
- catalog coverage "West (U.S.) Economic conditions 19th century.".
- catalog coverage "West (U.S.) History 1848-1860.".
- catalog coverage "West (U.S.) History 1860-1890.".
- catalog coverage "West (U.S.) Social conditions 19th century.".
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""Examining seven states of the Far West, Eugene Moehring reveals how Americans used cities and towns to build their Western empire, developing their urban centers with wealth from the hinterlands - San Francisco, for example, built its initial fortune on the gold of the Mother Lode - and supplying their growing populations with foodstuffs and other essential resources from their rural tributaries while at the same time using their regional connections as outlets for the goods and services of the cities. Towns were also used as bases for further advance into hitherto unsettled territories especially into Native American lands."".
- catalog description ""The scope of Moehring's inquiry is vast, incorporating such themes as the roles of railroads, local and regional capital investment and boosterism in the creation of municipal centers, interactions with Indians: the relationship between water and town development; the importance of agricultural centers in reinforcing trade; the role of urban competition; and the part that cultural and racial superiority assumptions played in creating the American urban framework."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-390) and index.".
- catalog description "Urbanism and empire -- Northern California: from gold rush to land rush -- Southern California: fashioning a Western Riviera -- Utah: Saints, gentiles, and the networking of Zion -- Nevada: treasure islands in the desert -- Oregon: pioneer fever in the rain belt -- Washington: Granary, Apple Barrel, and Woodland -- Idaho: ramifying mountains along the Nile -- Arizona: East of Eden, South of Zion-colonialism under siege -- Epilogue: Towns, the frontier, and the colonialism -- Appendix: Population, 1860-1890.".
- catalog extent "xxx, 408 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0874175658 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "The urban West".
- catalog isPartOf "Urban West.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Reno : University of Nevada Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Territorial expansion.".
- catalog spatial "West (U.S.) Economic conditions 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "West (U.S.) History 1848-1860.".
- catalog spatial "West (U.S.) History 1860-1890.".
- catalog spatial "West (U.S.) Social conditions 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "West (U.S.)".
- catalog subject "978/.02 22".
- catalog subject "Cities and towns West (U.S.) History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "City and town life West (U.S.) History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "F593 .M674 2004".
- catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.)".
- catalog tableOfContents "Urbanism and empire -- Northern California: from gold rush to land rush -- Southern California: fashioning a Western Riviera -- Utah: Saints, gentiles, and the networking of Zion -- Nevada: treasure islands in the desert -- Oregon: pioneer fever in the rain belt -- Washington: Granary, Apple Barrel, and Woodland -- Idaho: ramifying mountains along the Nile -- Arizona: East of Eden, South of Zion-colonialism under siege -- Epilogue: Towns, the frontier, and the colonialism -- Appendix: Population, 1860-1890.".
- catalog title "Urbanism and empire in the Far West, 1840-1890 / Eugene P. Moehring.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".