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  | | The Octopus(1st Edition)$$$$ A Story of California (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (v. 1) Paperback, 688 Pages, Published 1994 by Penguin Classics Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-018770-0, ISBN: 0-14-018770-7 "Like the tentacles of an octopus, the tracks of the railroad reached out across California, as if to grasp everything of value in the state Based on an actual, bloody dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880, "The Octopus"is a stunning novel of the waning days of the frontier West. To the tough-minded and self-reliant farmers, the monopolistic, land-grabbing railroad represented everything they despised: c ..." |