Cover
Contents
Preface
Introduction: The Indomitable City and Its Environmental Context
Part I: Boomtown Sacramento
Chapter 1: John A. Sutter and the Indian Business
Chapter 2: River City Sacramento’s Gold Rush Birth and Transfiguration
Chapter 3: “We Must Give the World Confidence in the Stability and Permanence of the Place” : Planning Sacremento's Townsite, 1853 - 1870
Chapter 4: Railroads and the Urban Environment
Part II: Valley Reclamation
Chapter 5: The Perils of Agriculture in Sacramento’s Untamed Hinterland
Chapter 6: Rivers of Gold, Valley of Conquest
Chapter 7: Forging Transcontinental Alliances
Chapter 8: Both “Country Town” and “Bustling Metropolis”
Part III: Government Town
Chapter 9: Unseen Investment: New Deal Sacramento
Chapter 10: The Legacy of War: Sacramento’s Military Bases
Chapter 11: Recalling Rancho Seco: Voicing a Nuclear past
Part IV: Reclaiming the Past
Chapter 12: Dreams, Realizations, and Nightmares: The American River Parkways Tumultuous Life, 1915-2011
Chapter 13: Thunder over the Valley: Environmental Politics and Indian Gaming in California
Chapter 14 The Invention of Old Sacramento: A Past for the Future
Epilogue: Sacramento, Before and After the Gold Rush
Notes
Contributors
Index
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