Industrial Cowboys

Author: David Igler
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B003FGWPIG

Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920

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. Download Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920 from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Industrial Cowboys examines how Henry Miller and Charles Lux, two German immigrants, consolidated 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. Told with clarity and originality, this story 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.
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