The octopus, a story of California
About this book
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 was originally planned to be part one of a three part trilogy, The Epic of the Wheat. Part two, The Pit, was published later but Norris died before completing the third novel.
Subjects
- american fiction
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- california, fiction
- central pacific railroad
- farmers
- farm life
- fiction
- fiction, general
- french poetry
- mussel slough tragedy, 1880
- mussel slough tragedy (1880) fast (ocolc)fst01031083
- railroads
- railroad stories
- wheat
- wheat farmers