...CHAPTER I JUST AFTER PASSING Caraher’s saloon, on the County Road that ran south from Bonneville, and that divided the Broderson ranch from that of Lo... ... Tulare County, all the vast reaches of the San Joaquin Valley—in fact all South Central Califor- nia, was bone dry, parched, and baked and crisped af... ...nd the mine—all this, all the traits and types of every community from the Dakotas to the Mexicos, from Winnipeg to Guadalupe, gathered to- gether, sw... ...erce bickerings between the farmers of the San Joaquin and the Pacific and Southwestern Railroad irritated him and wearied him. He cared for none of t... ... effects of causes thousands of miles distant—a drought on the prairies of Dakota, a rain on the plains of India, a frost on the Russian steppes, a ho... ...t seemed as if all the colour which should have gone to vivify the various counties, towns, and cities marked upon it had been absorbed by that huge, ... ...her of the San Joaquin, yes, and of ev- ery owner of every bonanza farm in Dakota and Minne- sota. Send your wheat to China; handle it yourselves; do ... ...of the death rattles of little enterprises, expiring unobserved in far-off counties, up in canyons and arroyos of the foothills, forgotten by every on... ...hat do we men who backed you care about rates up in Del Norte and Siskiyou Counties? Not a whoop in hell. It was the San Joaquin rate we were fighting...

...nglish Colonies were founded -Difference in the appearance of North and of South America at the time of their Discovery – Forests of North America – P... ...and by the two great oceans on the east and west. It stretches towards the south, forming a triangle whose irregular sides meet at length below the gr... ...r having been delayed in lakes and marshes, it flows slowly onwards to the south. Sometimes quietly glid- ing along the argillaceous bed which nature ... ...e reader the general principles on which the political organization of the counties and town- ships of the United States rests, I have thought it expe... ...ical notions on the nature of his duties and the extent of his rights. The Counties of New England The division of the countries in America has consid... ...able analogy with that of the arrondissements of France. The limits of the counties are arbitrarily laid down, and the various dis- tricts which they ... ... these by far the largest part exist in California, Michi- gan, Wisconsin, Dakota, and New Mexico and Nevada. In New England, Pennsylvania, and New Yo...