Mussel Slough Tragedy Bibliography

A Mussel Slough Tragedy Bibliography

Books

Beers, Terry. (2004). Gunfight at Mussel Slough: Evolution of a Western Myth. (California Legacy Series). Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books.

Bishop, William. Southern California 100 Years Ago: Vol. 1. Including: (1) Southern California, Parts 1 & 2; (2) Lick Observatory of California.

Botsford & Hammond. (1885). Tulare County California: A Truthful Description if Its Climate, Soil, Towns, and Vast Agricultural and Other Resources. Visalia, CA: Botsford and Hammond.

Bristow, Barbara M. (1971). Mussel Slough Tragedy: Railroad Struggle or Land Gamble? MA Thesis. California State University, Fresno.

Brown, J. L. (1958). Mussel Slough Tragedy. PrivatelyPrinted.

Brown, Richard Maxwell (1991). No Duty to Retreat: Violence and Values in American History and Society. NY: Oxford University Press.

Camp, Walter. (1921). Cotton Culture in the San Joaquin Valley, California. U.S.D.A. Department Circular No. 164. Washington, DC: GPO.

Chapman, H. and J. A. Gordon. (1867). Map of Tulare County, California. SF: Britton & Rey.

Coy, O. C. (1973). California County Boundaries, Rev. Ed. Fresno, CA: Valley Publishers.

Cutter, Donald C. (1950). Spanish Explorations of California’s Central Valley. PhD. Dissertation, U.C. Berkeley.

Derby, George H. (1857). Report to the Secretary of War, Communications in Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate: A Report on the Tulare Valley. Senate Executive Document No. 110, 32rd Congress, 1^st Session.

DeRos, Robert. (1948). The Thirsty Land: The Story of the Central Valley Project. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.

Flynn, P. J. (1890). Report on the Projected Works of the Tulare Irrigation District, Tulare County, California. Tulare, CA: Daily Evening Register-Star.

George, Henry. (1868). “What the Railroad will bring us.” Overland Monthly 1 (10):303.

Glasscock, C. B. (1929). Bandits and the Southern Pacific. NY: Frederick A. Stokes Co.

Hanford, California Hanford Quadrangle, Kings County, 1/31680 scale, Edition of 1926. U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey USGS U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Topographical Map.

Henderson, George L. (1999). California and the Fictions of Capital. NY: Oxford University Press.

Hopkins, Ernest Jerome (ed). (1968). The Ambrose Bierce Satanic Reader. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.

Howe, Frank. (1937). The Henry Howe Family’s Gold Rush Story. Unpublished typescript.

Jacobs, Julius. (1980)."Mussel Slough: 'In the End, the Farmer Won'," Extra Edition, The Hanford Sentinel, May 12.

Jackson, Joseph Henry. (1949). Bad Company. The Story of California’s Legendary and actual Stage-Robbers, Bandits, Highwaymen and Outlaws from the Fifties to the Eighties. NY: Harcourt, Brace & Co.

McAlister, W. A. (1939). A Study of Railroad Land Grant Dispersals in California. Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. of History, USC. Los Angeles.

Marx, Leo. (1964). The Machine in the Garden. NY: Oxford University Press.

Mitchell, Annie R. (195x). Land of the Tules. Illustrated by Adele Bradley.

Rice, R., Bullough, W., and Orsi, R. (1988). The Elusive Eden: A New History of California. NY: Knopf.

Robinson, John R. (1894). The Octopus: A history of the Construction, Conspiracies, Extortions, Robberies, and Villainous Acts of the Central Pacific, Southern Pacific of Kentucky, Union Pacific and Other Subsidized Railroads. San Francisco. Reprinted by Books on Demand 2004.

Robinson, W. W. (19xx). The Story of Tulare County and Visalia.

Russell, Charles Edward. (1914). Stories of the Great Railroads. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co. (Originally published in Hampton’s Magazine)

Schwartz, Steven. (1998). From West to East: California and the Making of the American Mind. NY: The Free Press.

Smith, Richard K. (1976). Towns along the Tracks: Railroad Strategy and Town Promotion in the San Joaquin Valley, California. Ph.D. Dissertation, UCLA.

Smith, Wallace. (1976). Garden of the Sun. (Originally published in 1939 by Lyman House) Reprinted Fresno, CA: California Historical Books.

Periodicals

David J. Bederman. (1988). The Imagery of Injustice at Mussel Slough: Railroad Land Grants, Corporation Law, and the "Great Conglomerate West," Western Legal History, Summer/Fall 1988 1(2): 258.

Brown, J. L. (1957). "More Fictional Memorials to Mussel Slough," Pacific Historical Review, Vol. XXVI, No. 4.

Bloom, Khaled. (1983). “Pioneer Land Speculation in California’s San Joaquin Valley.” Agricultural History, 57.3 (July): 297-307.

Conlogue, William. (1999, Spring). “Farmer’s Rhetoric of Defense: California Settlers versus the Southern Pacific Railroad.” California History Spring 1999, pp. 40-55.

Larim, J. A. (1976). “Legal Questions Arising from the Mussel Slough Land Dispute,” Southern California Quarterly, Vol. LVIII, No. 2.

McAfee. Ward M. (1968). “Local Interests and Railroad Regulation in California During the Granger Decade.” Pacific Historical Review 37.1(February): 51-66.

McKee, I. (1948). “Notable Memorials to Mussel Slough.” Pacific Historical Review 17: 19-27.

Orsi, Richard J. (1975). “The Octopus Reconsidered: The Southern Pacific Railroad and Agricultural Modernization in California 1865-1915.” California Historical Quarterly 54(3): 197-220.

Original Sources

The Public Good “No Compromise with Error and Wrong.” Vol.1, No. 11, Nov. 5, 1878. Published weekly in Hanford, CA beginning prior to Sept 10, 1878 (Vol. 1, Issue 3).

The Struggle of the Mussel Slough Settlers (also at the California Historical Society, North Baker Research Library, FN-31567.

Russell, Charles Edward. (1910). “Speaking of Widows and Orphans,” Hampton’s Magazine.

Fiction

Barnett, Jill. (1991). Surrender A Dream. NY: Pocket Books.

Jackson, Helen Hunt. (1884). Ramona. Boston: Roberts Brothers.

Miller, May Merrill. (1938). First the Blade. Alfred A. Knopf.

Morrow, William C. (1882). Blood-Money. Visalia, CA: Visalia Times-Delta.

Norris, Frank. (1901). The Octopus. P. F.Collier & Son.

Porter, Rebecca N. (1953). Raisin Valley. Vantage Press.

Post, C. C. (1884). Driven from Sea to Sea; or, Just a Campin’. Philadelphia & Chicago: Elliot and Breezley.

Royce, Josiah.(1887). The Feud of Oakfield Creek: A Novel of California Life. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.