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. \ 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...
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"Ambitiously conceived, abundantly researched, effectively plotted, elegantly composed, and concisely argued, Igler's study of the rise and fall of Miller & Lux will be hailed as a landmark contribution. No other work on late nineteenth-century California so stylishly and convincingly brings together the social, economic, and ecological dimensions of the state's post-Gold Rush development."—Stephen Aron, author of How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay"David Igler writes this intriguing history at the intersection of landscape, work and industry. He places the emergence of Western resource based corporations at the center of a set of cultural, economic, and natural changes that intersect and ramify in unforeseen directions."—Richard White, author of "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own": A New History of the American West
Introduction : industrial cowboys in the Far West11The San Joaquin Valley : landscape, history, and memory192Laying the foundation : San Francisco networks and hinterland property353Privatizing the San Joaquin landscape in the 1870s604Lux v. Haggin : reclaiming the San Joaquin from nature925Laboring on the land1226Confronting new environments at the century's turn147Conclusion : unreconstructed cowboys in an industrial nation179
