Backcountry Ghosts: California Homesteaders and the Making of a Dubious Dream - Hardcover
by Josh Sides
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9781496213211ISBN-10:1496213211UPC:9781496213211Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.20 x 7.70 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCBJNV4RK8
Backcountry Ghosts: California Homesteaders and the Making of a Dubious Dream
California is an infamously tough place to be poor: home to about half of the entire nation's homeless population, burdened by staggering home prices and unsustainable rental rates, California is a state in crisis. But it wasn't always that way, as prize-winning historian Josh Sides reveals in Backcountry Ghosts. In 1862 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, the most ambitious and...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9781496213211ISBN-10:1496213211UPC:9781496213211Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.20 x 7.70 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCBJNV4RK8
Josh Sides is Whitsett Professor of California History, California State University at Northridge. He is the author of L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present and Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco, winner of the Bullough Prize and the Lewis Mumford Prize.
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