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The fascinating story of a cotton magnate whose voracious appetite for land drove him to create the first big agricultural empire of the Central Valley of Calif

J.G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, labor unions and every journalist who e

Claus Spreckels (1828–1908) emigrated from his homeland of Germany to the United States with only seventy-five cents in his pocket, built a sugar empire, and

"Starr King in California" is a tribute to Starr King, a Unitarian minister and California citizen who strongly opposed the ideas of California's separation fro

This book is an account of how water rights were designed as a key part of the state’s largest public water system, the Central Valley Project. Along sixty mi