Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Retrospective Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 2006 Settling the sunset land: California and its family farmers, 1850s-1890s Alexandra Kindell Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd Part of the Agriculture Commons, Horticulture Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Kindell, Alexandra, "Settling the sunset land: California and its family farmers, 1850s-1890s " (2006). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 1908. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/1908 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Retrospective Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Settling the sunset land: California and its family farmers, 1850s-1890s by Alexandra Kindell A dissertation submitted to the graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Major: Agricultural History and Rural Studies Program of Study Committee: Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, Co-major Professor R. Douglas Hurt, Co-major Professor Hamilton Cravens James Andrews James McCormick Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 2006 Copyright © Alexandra Kindell, 2006. All rights reserved. UMI Number: 3244379 UMI Microform 3244379 Copyright 2007 by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved. This microform edition is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. ProQuest Information and Learning Company 300 North Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346 ii For Juanita Alice Boynton Ellsworth and Susan Ellsworth, the two women who wanted me to get off the farm, so to speak.