THE BIG FOUR; The Story of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins, and Crocker, and of the Building of the Central Pacific / By Oscar Lewis
New York and London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. B&W photos. Fourth Printing. Cloth. INSCRIBED by the Author on the front free endpaper, thick 8vo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2"), blue buckram with gilt lettering on spine and circular gilt logo of the 4 CPRR on the front cover, illustrated with 19 full-page B&W photographs, xi, [xii] = 418 pages + vi pp. Index + [vii-viii] A Note on the Type. Near Fine / None. Item #6557
Oscar Lewis (1893 – 1992) was one of the first xauthors and historians to write seriously about the literary, cultural and social history of the American West with repeated focus on early California. [He is not to be confused with the American anthropologist with the same name who gained fame with his studies of poverty.]
In addition to his study of the enormously powerful and wealthy Central Pacific railroad tycoons known as "The Big Four": Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins, and Crocker; Oscar Lewis's California studies included High Sierra Country, bad girl Lola Montez, and even backgrounds on Mark Twain's Celebrated Jumping Frog of Caliaveras County.
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