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Winter, 2002
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Book Review

Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850—1920. By David Igler. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xiv + 267 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $37.50.)

     "[I]n the new state of California," wrote Henry George in 1879, "great stretches of land which might be populous are desolate, because the recognition of exclusive ownership has put it in the power of one human creature to forbid his fellows from using it." As Exhibit A, he surely had in mind the firm of Miller & Lux—not one but two human creatures in a commercial partnership—and in this wonderful new book, David Igler shows how the company managed to own and control so much land for so long. . . .

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