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David Vaught
Researcher at Texas A&M University
Publications - 13
Citations - 61
David Vaught is an academic researcher from Texas A&M University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gold rush & Political radicalism. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 13 publications receiving 60 citations. Previous affiliations of David Vaught include University of Missouri–St. Louis.
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Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875-1920
TL;DR: Vaught as discussed by the authors argues that fruit and nut growers were neither industrialists nor agrarians, and that over time, labour relations, seasonal and other pressures beyond their control, the vagaries of distant markets and their own racial ambivalence undermined the growers' horticultural ideal.
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Factories in the Field Revisited
TL;DR: The welfare of this whole community is so bound up in the prosperity of the raisin business, and the progress of that business is so dependent on organized and more or less public action, that raisin affairs have always been treated, and properly treated, as public affairs.
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State of the art-rural history, or why is there no rural history of california?
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After the Gold Rush: Replicating the Rural Midwest in the Sacramento Valley
TL;DR: In the 1850s and 1860s, prior to California's bonanza wheat era, a prominent agricultural community emerged along Putah Creek in the lower Sacramento Valley as mentioned in this paper, despite being settled by displaced 49 ers on a fraudulent Mexican land grant.