The Boom of the Eighties in Southern California (California Classics) - Hardcover

Dumke, Glenn S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0873280032 ISBN 13: 9780873280037

Publisher: Huntington Library Press, 1991

Synopsis

First published in 1944, The Boom of the Eighties is a companion volume to The Cattle on a Thousand Hills: Southern California 1850-80 by Robert Glass Cleland. Boom takes the story forward from the early days of Anglo settlement of the region in the nineteenth century to the period when the immigration explosion created the Southern California of the twentieth century.

The 1880s were remarkable in Southern California history for a land boom of unprecedented proportions. In the decades after the Civil War, the great ranchos of Southern California were breaking up, and vine and citrus culture gradually replaced the Spanish-Mexican pastoral economy. The arrival of the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1876 increased immigration, and prospective settlers swarmed in from most of the United States and many countries of Europe.

Millions of dollars changed hands in realty transactions: fortunes were made and lost. The city of Los Angeles, nucleus of the boom, increased in size by 500 percent. Many new suburban towns were incorporated. Where once cattle had grazed on the Mexican ranchos, the American citizen built trolley lines, founded banks, and irrigated orange groves.

About this title

About the Author:

Glenn S. Dumke was a member of the history faculty at Occidental College from 1940 to 1950. In 1957 he became president of San Francisco State College, and in 1962 he was selected as chancellor of the California State Colleges. He was the editor of Mexican Gold Trail, co-author of A History of the Pacific Area in Modern Times, and editor of a revised edition of Robert G. Cleland's From Wilderness to Empire.

About this edition

• Publisher: Huntington Library Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0873280032
• ISBN 13: 9780873280037
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336