Author: Christopher J. Castaneda
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822979187
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Often referred to as “the Big Tomato,” Sacramento is a city whose makeup is significantly more complex than its agriculture-based sobriquet implies. In River City and Valley Life, seventeen contributors reveal the major transformations to the natural and built environment that have shaped Sacramento and its suburbs, residents, politics, and economics throughout its history. The site that would become Sacramento was settled in 1839, when Johann Augustus Sutter attempted to convert his Mexican land grant into New Helvetia (or “New Switzerland”). It was at Sutter’s sawmill fifty miles to the east that gold was first discovered, leading to the California Gold Rush of 1849. Nearly overnight, Sacramento became a boomtown, and cityhood followed in 1850. Ideally situated at the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers, the city was connected by waterway to San Francisco and the surrounding region. Combined with the area’s warm and sunny climate, the rivers provided the necessary water supply for agriculture to flourish. The devastation wrought by floods and cholera, however, took a huge toll on early populations and led to the construction of an extensive levee system that raised the downtown street level to combat flooding. Great fortune came when local entrepreneurs built the Central Pacific Railroad, and in 1869 it connected with the Union Pacific Railroad to form the first transcontinental passage. Sacramento soon became an industrial hub and major food-processing center. By 1879, it was named the state capital and seat of government. In the twentieth century, the Sacramento area benefitted from the federal government’s major investment in the construction and operation of three military bases and other regional public works projects. Rapid suburbanization followed along with the building of highways, bridges, schools, parks, hydroelectric dams, and the Rancho Seco nuclear power plant, which activists would later shut down. Today, several tribal gaming resorts attract patrons to the area, while “Old Sacramento” revitalizes the original downtown as it celebrates Sacramento’s pioneering past. This environmental history of Sacramento provides a compelling case study of urban and suburban development in California and the American West. As the contributors show, Sacramento has seen its landscape both ravaged and reborn. As blighted areas, rail yards, and riverfronts have been reclaimed, and parks and green spaces created and expanded, Sacramento’s identity continues to evolve. As it moves beyond its Gold Rush, Transcontinental Railroad, and government-town heritage, Sacramento remains a city and region deeply rooted in its natural environment.
River City and Valley Life
History of the State of California and Biographical Record of the Sacramento Valley, California
Author: James Miller Guinn
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 1834
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 1834
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Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 1999
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
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Category : Energy development
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
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Category : Energy development
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
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Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 1999: Testimony of members of Congress and other interested individual[s] and organizations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
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Category : Energy development
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
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Category : Energy development
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
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Federal Register
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Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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107-2 Hearings: Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 2003, Part 3, February 28, 2002
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Languages : en
Pages : 946
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Languages : en
Pages : 946
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Los Vaqueros Reservoir Expansion Project
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Languages : en
Pages : 860
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Languages : en
Pages : 860
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Proposed Fiscal Year 1995 Budget Requests for the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 2005: Bureau of Reclamation
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
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Category : Energy development
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Category : Energy development
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Central Valley Project Improvement Act: Response to comments (3 v. )
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Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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