| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.5

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Canada and the United States

David Igler. Industrial Cowboys: Miller and Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850–1920. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2001. Pp. xiv, 267. $37.50.

Miller and Lux is one of the fabled corporate names in California history. Founded by two German-born butchers (Henry Miller and Charles Lux) who migrated west during the Gold Rush, over several decades the partnership's far-flung ranches fed millions of cattle into its San Francisco slaughterhouse. Eventually encompassing more than a million acres, the Miller and Lux empire comprised one of the great "land monopolies" that engendered populist and progressive resentment during the late nineteenth century. Miller and Lux also became renowned for its ability to energize the California legal system in defense of riparian water rights tied to its holdings along the San Joaquin and Kern rivers. . . .

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