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William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles Catherine Mulholland Paperback
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ISBN 9780520234666
REGISTERED: 05/07/19
UPDATED: 08/02/25
William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles
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William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles

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  • William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles available on November 11 2014 from Amazon for 10.65
  • ISBN bar code 9780520234666 ξ3 registered November 11 2014
  • ISBN bar code 9780520234666 ξ1 registered July 03 2012
  • ISBN bar code 9780520234666 ξ2 registered April 20 2012
  • Product category is Book
  • Manufacturered by University of California Press

  • Product weight is 1.43 lbs. 

     

     

     

     
 

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    ^ William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles Catherine Mulholland Paperback  (revised Jul 2012)
    ^  (2012). William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles, University of California Press. Wiki.  (revised May 2012)
    ^ William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles, University of California Press. Amazon.  (revised Nov 2014)

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You would think a biography by a grand-daughter may tend to the less objective side. Catherine Mulholland's work is a referenced account of the fight for municipal control of water, and subsequently power, in the early 1900's in Los Angeles. Mulholland takes you by the hand, almost as if you were on an tour with "The Chief", through Willaim Mulhollands childhood, departure from Ireland, to eventual settlement in Los Angeles. From there she cronicles the water needs of the pueblo (pop. 10,000); Mulhollands r..
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Catherine Mulholland sets the tone of the book in the preface, where she focuses on putting previous publications in their place, and states her reliance on newspapers of the time. As pointed out in an earlier publication (Water and Power by W. Kahrl) newspapers are an unreliable source of information because they tend to reflect the bias of the publisher at the time. Mr. Kahrl relied on official records and documents whereas Ms. Mulholland relied more on newspaper accounts and less on official documents.
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One of the great stories in American history was the transformation of Los Angeles from a sleepy, anarchic California town into the megalopolis of today. And in any history of this transformation, the figure of William Mulholland looms large, for it was he who almost single-handedly brought about this transformation by providing Los Angeles with the one thing it needed to grow: an abundant water supply. This was accomplished by building an aqueduct to divert water from the Owens River to L.A. But this was n..
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