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Backcountry Ghosts: California Homesteaders and the Making of a Dubious Dream
| Title | Backcountry Ghosts: California Homesteaders and the Making of a Dubious Dream |
| Names | Sides, Josh. |
| Book Number | DBC29573 |
| Narrator | Brinkman, Susan |
| Annotation | In 1862 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, the most ambitious and sweeping social policy in the history of the United States. In the Golden State more than a hundred thousand people filed homesteading claims between 1863 and the late 1930s. More than sixty thousand Californians succeeded, claiming about ten million acres. In Backcountry Ghosts Josh Sides tells the histories of these Californian homesteaders, their toil and enormous patience, successes and failures, doggedness in the face of natural elements and disasters, and resolve to defend hard-earned land for themselves and their children. While some of these homesteaders were fulfilling the American Dream, that all Americans should have the opportunity to own land regardless of their background or station others used the Homestead Act to add to already vast landholdings or control water or mineral rights. Sides recovers the fascinating stories of individual homesteaders in California, both those who succeeded and those who did not, and the ways they shaped the future of California and the American West. Some strong language. Some violence. |
| Length | 7 hours, 25 minutes |
| Title Status | Active |
| Local Subject | History - US - HUS |
| History - US - 19th Century - HUN | |
| History - US - 20th Century - HUT | |
| History - US - Westward Expansion - HUSW | |
| Locally Produced - LPD | |
| Pioneers and Frontier Life - Non Fiction - PION | |
| US - Southwestern United States - SW | |
| Adult Nonfiction - AN | |
| Locally Produced - Kansas - LPDK | |
| History - HST | |
| History - US - 18th Century - HUE | |
| LC Subject | California - Rural conditions |
| Farmers - California - Biography |
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| Frontier and pioneer life - California |
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| Homestead law - California - History |
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| Land settlement - California - History |
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| Land tenure - California - History |
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| Pioneers - California - Biography |
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| Ranchers - California - Biography |
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| California - History, Local |
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| Biographies |
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| Nonfiction |
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| Language | English |
| Medium | Digital Book |
| Download Link | Downloadable talking book. |
| Released | 2024 |
| Publication Info | Emporia : Kansas State Library, Kansas Talking Books Regional Library, 2024 |
| Original Publication | Recorded from: Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, [2021] 9781496213211 |