From jflofland at ucdavis.edu Tue Feb 19 11:48:01 2008 From: jflofland at ucdavis.edu (John Lofland) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:48:01 -0800 Subject: [Dhrg-public] Fwd: Upcoming Events 02.19.08 Message-ID: The below book and talk are timely in view our current celebration of the 140th anniversary of the founding of Davisville. That is, Davisville was created at the same time The Associates were constructing their railroad. Rayner's characterization of the period as a "time of hucksters . . . all looking for the one big deal" certainly fits with what I have been reading in the Solano and Yolo newspapers of 1868 about the building of the railroad that created Davisville. Moreover, David Vaught's After the Gold Rush is especially good on this aspect. John Lofland >X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.3 >Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:26:51 -0800 (PST) >From: Dave Levine >Reply-To: Dave Levine > >To: >Subject: Upcoming Events 02.19.08 >X-Virus-Status: Clean >X-UCD-Spam-Score: 3.8 (***) >BAYES_00,HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_24,HTML_MESSAGE,MPART_ALT_DIFF,MIME_HTML_ONLY,MIME_HTML_ONLY_MULTI > >Wednesday, February 20, 2008 >The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California >Book Talk and Signing with Richard Rayner, L.A. Times Journalist & Author >California Historical Society, Gallery, 6:00-8:00p.m., Free >One hundred forty years ago, four men rose from their position as >middle-class merchants in Sacramento, California, to become the >force behind the transcontinental railroad. In the course of doing >so, they became wealthy beyond any measure. The Associates were >Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark >Hopkins. The four men were middle class merchants and aspiring >politicians when they decided to gamble on connecting the East Coast >with the West. It was a time of hucksters and small-town >businessmen all looking for the one big deal. The Associates would >buy up the press and push the railroad over impossible physical odds >all for the one purpose: to emerge as billionaires. > >This event will be recorded for broadcast at a later date on the >CSPAN2 Book Event Channel. > > > >You are subscribed to this list as jflofland at ucdavis.edu. Click >here >to unsubscribe, or send email to >unsubscribe.237297.191786718.3729699297016615215-jflofland_ucdavis.edu at en.groundspring.org. > >Our postal address is >678 Mission Street >San Francisco, California 94105 >United States > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www2.dcn.org/pipermail/dhrg-public/attachments/20080219/e7421738/attachment.html From jimbecket at sbcglobal.net Tue Feb 19 16:20:58 2008 From: jimbecket at sbcglobal.net (Jim Becket) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:20:58 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dhrg-public] [Davishistory&historicpreservation] Fwd: Upcoming Events 02.19.08 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <266874.4340.qm@web81602.mail.mud.yahoo.com> I agree with John that it is timely and "fits." For those not familiar with "our" railroad, I think we need to clarify that the 4 Associates were not the same men as those behind the Cal P, although they operated in a similar manner. We have visitrors to the Hattie Weber from time to time who are well versed in Leland Stanford, etc, but know nothing (and sometimes even doubt the existence of) another set of railroaders. Thanks for the alert, John Jim John Lofland wrote: The below book and talk are timely in view our current celebration of the 140th anniversary of the founding of Davisville. That is, Davisville was created at the same time The Associates were constructing their railroad. Rayner's characterization of the period as a "time of hucksters . . . all looking for the one big deal" certainly fits with what I have been reading in the Solano and Yolo newspapers of 1868 about the building of the railroad that created Davisville. Moreover, David Vaught's After the Gold Rush is especially good on this aspect. John Lofland X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.3 Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:26:51 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Levine Reply-To: Dave Levine To: Subject: Upcoming Events 02.19.08 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-UCD-Spam-Score: 3.8 (***) BAYES_00,HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_24,HTML_MESSAGE,MPART_ALT_DIFF,MIME_HTML_ONLY,MIME_HTML_ONLY_MULTI Wednesday, February 20, 2008 The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California Book Talk and Signing with Richard Rayner, L.A. Times Journalist & Author California Historical Society, Gallery, 6:00-8:00p.m., Free One hundred forty years ago, four men rose from their position as middle-class merchants in Sacramento, California, to become the force behind the transcontinental railroad. In the course of doing so, they became wealthy beyond any measure. The Associates were Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins. The four men were middle class merchants and aspiring politicians when they decided to gamble on connecting the East Coast with the West. It was a time of hucksters and small-town businessmen all looking for the one big deal. The Associates would buy up the press and push the railroad over impossible physical odds all for the one purpose: to emerge as billionaires. This event will be recorded for broadcast at a later date on the CSPAN2 Book Event Channel. --------------------------------- You are subscribed to this list as jflofland at ucdavis.edu. 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