The octopus, a story of California
Railroad stories
Wheat
French poetry
Farmers
California, fiction
Farm life
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Railroads
American fiction
Fiction, general
Fiction
Nominally, a fictional story of the disputes between a railroad and ranchers in California, it was actually a stern critique of the Central Pacific Railroad based on the famous "Mussel Slough Tragedy" where a shootout occurred between railroad men and citizens of a small California town. The Octopus…
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