River City and Valley Life: An Environmental History of the Sacramento Region

Often referred to as "the Big Tomato," Sacramento is a city whose makeup is significantly more complex than its agriculture-based sobriquet implies. In River City and Valley Life, seventeen contributors reveal the major transformations to the natural and built environment that have shaped Sacramento and its suburbs, residents, politics, and economics throughout its history. The site that would become Sacramento was settled in 1839, when Johann...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822962500
• ISBN13: 9780822962502
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"