The Cattle on a Thousand Hills: Southern California, 1850-1880

by Robert Glass Cleland

Book Overview

Well received by critics when first published in 1941, The Cattle on a Thousand Hills describes Southern California in its transition from a cattle frontier of Mexican rule and culture to an agricultural American community on the eve of great industrial and urban expansion. The story includes the conversion of great grazing ranchos into farms and settlements, the gradual displacement of frontier violence and instability by a more restrained,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873280970
• ISBN13: 9780873280976
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Angel City Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"