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Glory Years, The By Richard F. Pourade San Diego W/ Dust Jacket ATSF
Glory Years, The By Richard F. Pourade
The booms and busts in the Land of the Sundown Sea
Southern California's Most Exciting Days /Written By Richard F. Pourade /Commissioned By James S. Copley
Hard Cover with dust jacket Reflection from lights on some photos, Between apges 32-33 is a fold out San Diego Union Vol 1, #1 2 sided.
Copyright 1964
274 pages Indexed
CONTENTS
Chapter XV Chronology
Historical Statistics Credits
Bibliography
Index
It All Began With Father Horton1
Move Over, San Francisco!19
The Train That Never Came35
The Mountain That Spouted Gold51
The Panic That Broke The Bubble67
The Great Tidelands Robbery81
The Day The Town Went Wild93
Why Not Sell The Climate?109
The Big Gun Fight At Campo127
The Discontented Seventies139
The Train That Finally Came153
A Boom Nobody Would Believe167
When The Games Ran All Night191
Our `Innocent' Lambs Are Sheared213
The Town That Wouldn't Give Up235
THE Glory Years
The Story of the early boom periods in Southern California
The growth of Southern California has been spectacular. Its most spectacular period occurred right after the Civil War, when the great migrations into the West began.
Adobe hamlets became towns and rough towns became cities. But all did not rise in the same way or to the same degree.
This book is the story of what happened and how it happened, as seen from the vantage point of one area, San Diego, the site of the first white settlement on the Pacific Coast.
Frontier conditions died slowly. Armed bandits roamed the international border and at Campo in the distant mountains six men died, two of them by lynching, in a gun fight more deadly than that at the O. K. Corral in Arizona.
In 1869 there was a new gold strike, in the Julian country of the Cuyamaca Mountains, and thousands of persons rushed in to stake out claims. Millions were quickly taken out - but in the long run gold proved to be as illusive as the promise of wealth in land speculation.
Commerce was the door to growth and a railroad the key to unlock it. The struggle for the rights to build the transcontinental railroads, and of towns and cities to become their terminals, is a story of the clash of financial giants and adventurous promoters, of land speculators and visionary settlers.
Towns could be doomed or made by the word of a railroad baron.
It all becomes clear why and how San Francisco and Los Angeles became great metropolitan centers much earlier than San Diego. Booms and busts followed each other in rapid succession with each promotion of a new transcontinental railroad.
The climax came in the Boom of the Eighties, when, for example, San Diego jumped in population from 5,000 to 50,000 in two years, and then overnight collapsed to less than 16,000.
Those years, the most spectacular of all, will never come again.
With the railroad fare from Chicago to the West Coast at one time only $1, in the rate war between railroads, thousands flocked to the "land of the sundown sea" and with them came the gamblers and sharpsters, to sweep up the money.
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