Frederick Billings : a life / Robin W. Winks.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.Description: x, 398 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:- 0195068149
- 9780195068146
- HE2754.B5 W56 1991
- Also issued online.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-378) and index.
Also issued online.
Woodstock is where the sheriff lives -- The University makes all the difference -- First steps into the world -- Laura -- No small affair -- Founding a law firm: HPB -- A man of property -- The Montgomery Block -- Justice in the instant city -- The University of California is born -- The land problem -- The best chance -- "Saving California for the Union" -- Arms purchaser -- Julia -- At a crisis -- "Home again and home again" -- Buying into railroads -- "A splendid adventure": the Northern Pacific -- "A great triumph": reorganization -- "My life work was done": president -- Villard and the blind pool -- The last spike -- Reform republican -- Commerce and conservation -- Man and nature -- The best season to journey.