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  2. History of agriculture in California - Wikipedia

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    The history of agriculture in California began with California's indigenous peoples and was radically altered by colonization and statehood. Throughout its history agriculture has formed an important part of the state's economy. California has been the largest agricultural producer in the United States for over 60 years. [1]

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  4. Rural American history - Wikipedia

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    The social history of American agriculture (1936) online; Schapsmeier, Edward L., and Frederick H. Encyclopedia of American Agricultural History (Greenwood, 1975) Schob, David E. Hired hands and plowboys: farm labor in the Midwest, 1815-60 (1975), pp. 173–249. Shannon, Fred A. The Farmer's Last Frontier: Agriculture, 1860–1897 (1945) online

  5. History of California (1900–present) - Wikipedia

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    The death toll from the earthquake and resulting fire is the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history. The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the earthquake is a moment magnitude (M w) or Richter magnitude (M L) of 7.8; [7] however, other values have been proposed, from 7.7 to as high as 8.25. [8]

  6. History of California - Wikipedia

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    The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...

  7. Bibliography of California history - Wikipedia

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    Kevin Starr, former professor of History and California State Librarian has written many highly regarded books [1] on the history of California including the multi-volume Americans & the California Dream Series which contain a significant amount of history about Los Angeles and the surrounding area. California: A History. New York: Modern Library.

  8. Agriculture in California - Wikipedia

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    California is known to be free of Bactrocera tau (Walker). [303] California red scale (Aonidiella aurantii) is an invasive pest here. [304] It competitively displaced a prior invader Yellow scale . [304] Debach et al., 1978 finds that A. citrina is now extinct in this state due to the invasion of A. aurantii.

  9. Little Landers - Wikipedia

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    Smythe's idea, inspired by Bolton Hall's book, A Little Land and a Living, [2] was that a group of families should have small farms, with one to five acres of land each, and market their produce cooperatively. [3] The first colony was in the San Diego area. After public meetings, the Little Landers Corporation was incorporated on August 1, 1908.