The Octopus: A Story Of California by Frank Norris
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University 2007
ISBN/ASIN: 8562022802
Number of pages: 588
This is a turn-of-the-century epic of California wheat farmers struggling against the rapacity of the Pacific and Southwestern Railroad, which will stop at nothing to extend its domination. This is the story of the waning days of the frontier West.
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