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CONTENTS I Planting the Seed I 2 Westward Vision 9 3 Bound for California 16 4 San Francisco: A Rough City of Golden Dreams 25 5 An Interlude of Family Happiness 35 6 Bourn's Nevada Adventures 47 7 Bourn's Luck 58 8 Tragedy and Responsibility 67 9 The Cambridge Years 76 10 Young Bourn and the Empire Mine 86 II The Napa Valley Years 95 12 San Francisco: City of Promise 105 13 Expanding Horizons 119 14 The New Century 132 15 Growing Fortunes 148 16 Water, Land, and Politics 165 17 The Changing Times 196 18 The Final Years 219 Notes 255 Sources and Acknowledgments 279 Index 281 [54.234.45.33] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 14:43 GMT) ILLUSTRATIONS followingpage 94 William Bowers Bourn I William Bowers Bourn II Headframe and grounds of the Empire Mine Empire Cottage Miners and main shaft of the Empire Mine Greystone Cellar, 1889 Madrofio Filoli Ballroom at Filoli Sidney Woods, head butler at Filoli Sarah Esther Chase Bourn, 1899 George Starr Sky Farm, 1910 Bourn family portrait, 1919 Muckross House "Drunk's Dinner" at Filoli, 1933 Agnes Moody Bourn and William Bowers Bourn II in the gardens of Filoli, late 1920S ...