| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.4

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Book Review

Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West, 1850–1930. By Richard J. Orsi. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xxii + 615 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $29.95.)

Although Richard Orsi's Sunset Limited is named for the Southern Pacific's famed luxury passenger train between New Orleans and San Francisco, this book is not about railroad expansion or passenger train service. Rather, it is a detailed study of one company's role in the formulation of both private and public policies in a number of areas, including western land management, agricultural diversification, and environmental problems such as fire and pest control.

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