Farmers have their tentacles in everything — finance, espionage, war, modern slavery, coups, wars, oil, horrible worker abuse, and environmental destruction.
Love it Yasha. Muckraking, old-style. In case you haven't seen this, here is a link to a piece in Everybody's Magazine, May, 1905 called "The West Coast Land Grafters" that reveals some of the more egregious methods of land accumulation in the 19th century: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015010948811&view=1up&seq=655.
I picked that out of a footnote in Gustavus Myers' classic "History of the Great American Fortunes", which shows how some of the degenerate wealthy of early California innovated and perfected their forefathers' frauds, which have been a continuous plague on this land since the earliest colonial times.
Impressive! Incredibly expansive.
Love it Yasha. Muckraking, old-style. In case you haven't seen this, here is a link to a piece in Everybody's Magazine, May, 1905 called "The West Coast Land Grafters" that reveals some of the more egregious methods of land accumulation in the 19th century: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015010948811&view=1up&seq=655.
I picked that out of a footnote in Gustavus Myers' classic "History of the Great American Fortunes", which shows how some of the degenerate wealthy of early California innovated and perfected their forefathers' frauds, which have been a continuous plague on this land since the earliest colonial times.