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389 Note: Page numbers in italics refer to figures. Abbott, Carl, 3 acorns, Indians’ use of, 19, 21 agriburbs. See suburbs, agricultural agriculture, 137, 186; development of, 116, 139, 156; effects of Sutter’s introduction of, 33; efforts to farm in Putah Sink, 103–4, 115; flood control and, 6; Indians and, 14, 17–19; Indians as Sutter’s workforce in, 24, 26; mining and, 36–37, 125, 144–45; Natomas and, 125; railroads’ influence on, 47, 96–97; rural roads built by New Deal workers for, 189; Sacramento boosters boasting about, 164, 168–69, 170–71; in Sacramento’s development, 30, 59, 314, 318–19; small-scale recommended for suburban homeowners, 164–71; in Sutter’s dream of empire, 315, 318; transients seeking work in, 187–88; water policies and, 39, 143, 256–57; wheat, 103, 110, 139 Agua Caliente Indians, 269, 274, 276, 287, 376n40 air defense, cities’ promotion of, 195 Aldrich, Elmer, 249, 251 Alkali Flats, 172–73 Alsip, Edwin K., 173 American basin: high grade lifting Sacramento out of, 74; landscape of, 65; Natomas land in, 126, 128–30; Sacramento in, 62, 72, 119 American River, 32; as California Wild and Scenic River, 265; dams taming, 124, 132, 242–43; discovery of gold in, 40; diversion of water from, 219, 256–59; flora and fauna along, 244–47; flow of, 243, 257–61; flow required for fish spawning, 257, 259–61; hydroelectric plants on, 95, 218, 258; levees on, 56, 66, 72, 81, 120; pollution of, 255–56; recreation on, 256, 260, 260–61, 264–65; rerouting of, 5, 56, 62, 68, 72–74, 73, 80–81, 84–85, 121; sediment and debris from, 243–44, 253–55; topography along, 242, 243–44 American River Natural History Association, 245, 263 American River Parkway, 255; effects on sand and gravel business, 253–55; facilities damaged by flooding, 261–62; land for, 251–53, 255; original proposals for, 247–49; promoters of, 249–51; reduced funding for, 262–63, 265–66; route of, 241–42, 242; Sacramentans’ pride in, 241, 266; varied uses of, 263–64, 264, 265 Amtrak, using Southern Pacific depot, 99 Anderson, M. Kat, 315 Andognini, Carl, 232-33 Anthropocene era, 180–81 Arcade Park, 166–67 architecture: to avoid floods, 58, 58–59; in Fair Oaks’ local histories, 179; of McClellan Field buildings, 196; of suburban homes, 175–78 Arden Park Vista, 176–77 Army Corps of Engineers, 132, 143; focus on levees, 131, 140; US Geological Service competing with, 136, 139 Arrowsmith, A. T., 124 Astor, John Jacob, 14 Atomic Energy Commission, 219–20 Auburn Dam, opposition to, 258 Auburn-Folsom South Unit, of Central Valley Project, 257–59 Auburn Indians, in UAIC, 278 INDEx 390 index Audubon Society, 245, 250, 252 automobiles, 194; urban planners incorporating, 247, 299–300 B. F. Hastings building, in Old Sacramento, 304–5 Babcock & Wilcox nuclear reactor, 219, 224, 234 Bacon, Augustus O., 150–51 Barden, Mary, 177 Barstow, welcoming Indian gaming, 285, 378n64 Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC), 202, 207, 211, 213–14 Bear River, Natomas dredging, 128 Bechtel Corporation, and Rancho Seco, 219, 234 Beecher, Catherine E., 169 Bell, Theodore A., 141, 145 Benicia, as rival for state capital, 69 Bennett, Ira E., 148–49 Bennett, S. G., 141 Bercut-Richards Cannery, Sacramento Army Depot using, 212–13, 213 Bidwell, John, 26, 29, 53 Bigelow, Hardin, 53, 117–18 Big Lagoon and Los Coyotes communities, 285 Bigler, John, 69 Blackman, Martha Ann, 224–25, 228–29, 232, 236 Blum, Deborah, 226–27 Board of Swampland Commissioners, 120–21 Boggs, Dave, 233 boosters, Sacramento’s, 159, 163; as growth machine, 162, 352n16; in suburbanization, 160, 167, 173 BRAC. See Base Realignment and Closure Commission Brannan, Samuel, 33, 40, 53, 325n4; gold rush and, 40, 44; Sutter and, 63–64, 327n24 Brannan’s Addition, to original grid, 64 bridges, 91, 370n16, 382n36. See also Tower Bridges Bromley, George, 72 brothels, 53, 55, 57 Broward, Napoleon Bonaparte, 149–50 Brown, Jerry, 288 Brown, Melinda, 228 Buonaiuto, Joe, 234 Bureau of Reclamation, 132; proposals to divert American River water, 219, 256–59 Burnett, Peter, 43, 65, 68 business, 277; boosterism by, 57, 165; in development of Sacramento, 62, 313–14, 318; effects of floods on, 49–50, 66; gold rushers abandoning mining for, 67; influence on routing of Interstate 5, 299–300; merchants as civic leaders, 56; Natomas in, 124, 126; in “preservation for use” model, 303–4; profiting from gold rush, 40, 42, 46–48, 63; railroads...

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