The Story of the First Decade: In Imperial Valley, California (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

F. Howe, Edgar

9781331396031: The Story of the First Decade: In Imperial Valley, California (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 1331396034 ISBN 13: 9781331396031

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Story of the First Decade: In Imperial Valley, California

For several years it had been my dream some day to write the romantic history of Imperial Valley, and when the time was drawing near for celebration of the tenth year of the beginning of reclamation, I said to myself: "Now I will write The Story of the First Decade."

But in the print shop man proposes and the necessity of current events disposes. The inability to find time for the work led me to call in as an "associate" in the writing of the story Mr. Wilbur J.Hall and events have so shaped themselves against my purpose that the finished book is primarily the work of the "associate." In looking over these pages, now that the work is concluded, I feel that I can congratulate the public that fate decreed that the important task of recording this history was rescued from my hands and placed in those of an abler man.

This is the time for the story to be told. The pioneer period is drawing to a close. The ten years of struggle has laid the foundation for an addition to Southern California such as it has never before received.

Yet the structural labor is but begun. We can see today more clearly the possibility of building a new Egypt. We can see the possible unification of Imperial and Coachella Valleys in a continuous garden from the Mexican line to the mountains which cleave Southern California into two parts.

The desert has been called the land that God forgot. It is not true. It is the land that man, in the building of Southern California, forgot, the land whose products are essential to the rounding out of a complete self-sustaining unity.

It is Imperial Valley which is making a city of a million inhabitants of Los Angeles, and this story of the achievements of the pioneers of Imperial Valley will some day be recognized as the narrative of one of the most important stages in the construction of an empire in the Southwest, the glory of which the keenest visioned of us all can now but dimly see.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.