The Vision of Elijah Berl reinforces the same themes of The Bursting of a Boom
and Millionaires of a Day — that is , the failure of characters who engage in
unsavory business practices and the importance of agricultural production once
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Author: George L. Henderson
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In part a tour of California as a virtual laboratory for refining the circulation of capital, and in part an investigation of how the state's literati, with rare exception, reconceived economy in the name of class, gender, and racial privilege, this study will appeal to all students and scholars of California's—And The American West's—economic, environmental, and cultural past. Author note:George L. Hendersonis Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota.For other irrigation novels, see: Frank Lewis Nason, The Vision of Elijah Berl (
1905); Ednah Aiken, The River (1914); and Belle Willey Gue, The Last Ditch (
1923). J. Smeaton Chase recounted his visit to the Imperial in California Desert
Trails ...
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Kevin Starr is the foremost chronicler of the California dream and indeed one of the finest narrative historians writing today on any subject. The first two installments of his monumental cultural history, "Americans and the California Dream," have been hailed as "mature, well-proportioned and marvelously diverse (and diverting)" (The New York Times Book Review) and "rich in details and alive with interesting, and sometimes incredible people" (Los Angeles Times). Now, in Material Dreams, Starr turns to one of the most vibrant decades in the Golden State's history, the 1920s, when some two million Americans migrated to California, the vast majority settling in or around Los Angeles. In a lively and eminently readable narrative, Starr reveals how Los Angeles arose almost defiantly on a site lacking many of the advantages required for urban development, creating itself out of sheer will, the Great Gatsby of American cities. He describes how William Ellsworth Smyth, the Peter the Hermit of the Irrigation Crusade, the self-educated, Irish engineer William Mulholland (who built the main aquaducts to Los Angeles), and George Chaffey (who diverted the Colorado River, transforming desert into the lush Imperial Valley) brought life-supporting water to the arid South. He examines the discovery of oil, the boosters and land developers, the evangelists (such as Bob Shuler, the Methodist Savanarola of Los Angeles, and Aimee Semple McPherson), and countless other colorful figures of the period. There are also fascinating sections on the city's architecture the impact of the automobile on city planning, the Hollywood film community, the L.A. literati, and much more. By the end of the decade, Los Angeles had tripled in population and become the fifth largest city in the nation. In Material Dreams, Starr captures this explosive growth in a narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose.The storm center Nason , T. L. The vision of Elijah Berl --- Old fairy tales for
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by two volumes belonging to the fiction of the current month, The Vision of Elijah
Berl, by Frank Lewis Nason, and Justin Wingate, Ranchman, by John H. Whitson.
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... courage sometimes , and at others feminine to the last degree , makes a good
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... the intrigues , as the whole book , fairly reeks of its sub - are at the base of
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THE VISION OF ELIJAH BERL . A Novel Dealing with the Beginning of Orange
Growing in California , by Means of Irrigation , by Frank Lewis Nason .
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Frank Lewis Nason , the author of several novels , including The Vision of Elijah
Berl , lately published , is a mining engineer , the scene of whose stories has
been the mountains of California . Berl's “ vision " was the feasibility of irrigation
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He makes THE VISION OF ELIJAH BERL us acquainted with a Spartan , a
Baotian and an Athenian , who are fortunate enough IT is not often that love and
industry are to go on the great expedition in close con so as tact with the king .
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A more complex story of land speculation is The Vision of Elijah Berl . Elijah Berl ,
a New England émigré to the San Bernardino area , feels called by God to
reclaim the desert . Yet his feelings are conflicted : " If I can only do this , it means
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The book is one that can been the mountains of California . be opened at any
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Vision of Elijah Berl . t $ 1.50 . Little . This story of California is the story of Elijah
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A more ambitious attempt to utilize the reclamation theme in this early era is
found in Frank Lewis Nason's The Vision of Elijah Berl ( 1905 ) . This is the story
of the moral struggles that come to a New England Calvinist in Southern
California in ...
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The Vision of Elijah Berl By FRANK LEWIS NASON Author of “The Blue Goose”
and “To the End of the Trail” 1zma. Decorated cloth. 31.5o Mr. Nason's new novel
deals with the beginnings of orange growing in California by irrigation. Elijah ...
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Translated from The Vision of Elijah Berl . By Frank well qualified to write . His
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