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Imperial
by William T. Vollmann
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For generations of migrant workers, Imperial County--the California desert region where the U.S. borders Mexico--has held the promise of paradise and the reality of hell.
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Table of Contents
Maps
The entity called Imperial
Persons and places in Imperial
Rivers and canals in Imperial
My new river cruises
pt. One: Introductions. 1. The gardens of Paradise (1999)
2. Delineations (2000)
3. The water of life (2001)
4. Subdelineations: lovescapes (2001)
5. The widemouthed pipe (2002) [Warning of impending aridity]
6. Then and now (1844-2002)
7. The other side of the ditch (1519-2005)
8. Sign of slow growth sends stocks lower (2002)
9. Water is here (1849-2002)
10. Preface (2002-2003)
11. Subdelineations: bookscapes (1850-2003)
12. The gardens of Paradise (2007)
pt. Two: Outlines. 13. When bread was light (1768-1848)
14. Los Angeles ((1780)
15. Los Angeles (1781)
16. Tía Juana (1825)
17. Tecate (1830)
18. Los Angeles (1845)
19. West of the river (1803)
20. Drawing the line (1803-1848)
21. Ranch size (1800-1850)
22. Mexico (1821-1911)
23. The line itself (1844-1911)
Los Angeles (1850)
25. Lost mines (1849-2005)
26. White eyelashes (1853-1926)
27. Colonel Couts's homestead (1839-ca. 1915)
28. The Indians do all the hard work (1769-1906)
29. The Inland Empire (1860-1882)
30. Subdelineations: waterscapes (1850-1900)
31. Their needs are easily satisfied (1871-1906)
32. Los Angeles (1875)
33. The second line (1893)
34. The direct gaze of the confident man (1900)
35. Advertisement of sale (2002)
36. Imperial towns (1877-1910)
37. The Boomers (1880-1912)
38. Continued from page AI (2003)
39. Los Angeles (1900)
40. The Imperial idea (1901-2004)
41. Wilber Clark's homestead (1901-2005)
42. Mexicali (1904-1905)
43. The sweet young night (2002)
44. Imperial's center (1904-1907)
45. The third line (1907)
46. Subdelineations: paintscapes (1903-1970)
47. Imperial reprise (1781-1920)
pt. Three: Revisions. 48. Futures (1883-2007)
49. Harry Chandler's homestead (1898-1938)
50. Pratically self-supporting in three years (1865-2004)
51. The Ejidos (1903-2005)
52. Imperial reprise (1901-2006)
pt. Four: Footnotes. 53. What I wish I knew about Meloland (1907-1998)
54. San Diego (1769-1925)
55. In memoriam, Imperial Hazel Deed (1905-2002)
56. Stolid of face and languid (1901-2003)
57. The days of Lupe Vásquez (2003)
58. "Lupe is luckier" : the days of José López from Jalisco (2003)
59. Imperial reprise (1905-2003)
pt. Five: Elaborations. 60. The line itself (1895-1926)
61. the first Coyote (1895-1926)
62. The first Hobo (1901)
63. Twenty thousand in 1920 (1906-1922)
64. Coachella waits (1912-1917)
65. City of Imperial (1925)
66. Their needs are even more easily satisfied (1893-1927)
67. Negroes and Mexicans for cotton (1901-1930)
68. Mexicans getting ugly (1911-1926)
69. The next step (ca. 1925)
70. El Centro (1925)
71. Mexicali (1925)
72. Volstead (1919-1933)
73. The Chinese tunnels (1849-2003)
74. Indio (1925)
75. The Inland Empire (1925)
76. Los Angeles (1925)
77. Tamerlane's Warriors gallop into the Square ( 1924-2003)
78. Subdelineations: waterscapes (1901-1925)
79. The Mexican user is a customer, not an owner (1904-1918)
80. Market prices (1925)
81. San Diego (1925)
82. The long death of Albert Henry Larson (1903-1926)
83. Subdelineations: scrollscapes (1611-2004)
84. Imperial reprise (1901-1929)
pt. Six: Subplots. 85. Almost as efficiently as washing machines (1891-1936)
86. Subdelineations: lettucescapes (1922-1975)
87. The nights of Lupe Vásquez (2003)
88. Imperial reprise (1891-2003)
pt. Seven: Contradictions. 89. Credit will be restored (1929-1939)
90. Market prices (1919-1931)
91. In a still more advantageous position (1928-1942)
92. There is even evidence of a small fruit orchard (1931-2005)
93. Coachella's share (1918-1948)
94. Subdelineations: waterscapes (1925-1950)
95. The line itself (1927-1950)
96. Different from anything I'd ever know (1933-1950)
97. Farm size (1910-1944)
98. The line itself: Japanese addendum (1941-1945)
99. Broad and sinister motives (1928-1946)
100. Butter cream bread (ca. 1936)
101. Coachella (1936-1950)
102. Have you ever seen a flax field in bloom? (1940s)
103. The days of Carmen Carillo and Susana Caudillo (2003)
104. Imperial reprise (1754-1940)
pt. Eight: Reservations. 105. A definitive interpretation of the Blythe Intaglios (ca. 13,000 B.C.-2006)
106. The Island (2003-2006)
pt. Nine: Climaxes. 107. The largest irrigated district in the world (1950)
108. There was always food on the table (1950s)
109. Coachella (1950)
110. Riverside (1950)
111. Market prices (1950)
112. Crop reports (1946-1957)
113. Cantaloupe anxieties (1958)
114. The Braceros (1942-1965)
115. Operation Wetback (1954-1955)
116. Mexicali (1950)
117. Subdelineations: cottonscapes (1796-2007)
118. San Luis Río de Colorado (ca. 1968)
119. Certified seed (1959)
120. Subdelineations: ocean parkscapes (1966-1993)
121. Los Angeles (1950)
122. San Diego (1920-1960)
123. Tijuana (1966-2065)
124. Tecate (1950)
125. Holtville (1905-1964)
126. What a cold starry night used to be like (1949-1989)
127. Imperial reprise (ca. 1950-2066)
pt. Ten: Dissolutions. 128. Probably the weather (2002-2003)
129. From ten gals down to three (1914-2004)
130. You can't produce things the way you use to (2003-2004)
131. The Aztecs are back (2004)
132. The line itself (1950-2006)
133. Farm size (1950-2006)
134. We now worry about the sale of the fruit cocktail in Europe (1948-2003)
135. The water farmers (1951-2003)
136. Coachella (1975)
137. The Imperial idea (1950-2000)
138. It seems like the money is being taken by somebody (2003)
139. Chávez's grapes (1962-2006)
140. Subdelineations: waterscapes (1950-1975)
141. Wellton-Mohawk (1961)
142. Subdelineations: poisonscapes (1888-2003)
143. The Salton Sea (1944-1986)
144. Market prices (1975)
145. San Diego (1975)
146. Mexicali (1975)
147. "The language seems to belong so to this country" (ca. 1960-2003)
148. Los Angeles (1975)
149. El Centro (1975)
150. The Inland Empire (1875-2004)
151. Subdelineations: orangescapes (or, "It could be called Ambrosia I suppose") (1873-2005)
152. Calilche (1975-2005)
153. Imperial reprise (1754-2004)
pt. Eleven: Postcripts. 154. The prohibited ballads (1913-2005)
155. The Maquiladoras (2004)
156. Subdelineations: waterscapes (1975-2005)
157. As precious as this (2003)
158. One acre-foot (1903-2003)
159. Operation Gatekeeper (1994)
160. The Farm Water Quality Management Plan (2003)
161. Privatizing the Ejidos (1992-2006)
162. Assets forfeiture (2003)
163. We should have had a better negotiating position (2002-2003)
164. You might as well get out of the way (2006)
165. Water is here (a view from Arizona) (1985-2007)
166. Water is here (a view from Imperial) (2003)
167. Rain (2005-2006)
168. Probate (1901-2003)
169. Such a good life (2006)
170. Still a great farming county (2004)
171. Imperial reprise (1975-2005)
pt. Twelve: Definitions. 172. If Mexico were Italy (2004)
173. Where does Los Angeles end? (1834-2005)
174. Mexicans and Americans (1901-2007)
pt. Thirteen: Inscriptions. 175. Still a mystery (2003)
176. The line itself (2003-2006)
177. Subdelineations: Marsscapes (2004)
178. Rancho Roa (2004-2005)
179. Brock Farms (2004)
180. Salvation Mountain (1996-2005)
181. Signal Mountain (2003)
182. Between the lines (2003-2005)
183. Subdelineations: moneyscapes (1989-2005)
184. Subdelineations: moneyscapes (2003-2006)
185. Present and future successes (2003)
186. Market prices (2000)
187. Imperial Beach (2005)
188. San Diego (2003-2006)
189. Tijuana (2003-2005)
190. Tecate (2003-2006)
191. Campo (2005)
192. Mexicali (2003)
193. Ejido Netzahualcóyotl (2004)
194. San Luis Río Colorado (2006)
195. Blythe (2005)
196. The Inland Empire (2003-2004)
197. Coachella (2003-2004)
198. Indio (2003-2004)
199. Duroville (2003-2006)
200. Salton City (2006)
201. Holtville (2003)
202. Calexico (2003)
203. El Centro (2002)
204. Yellow Cab dispatching prices, City of Imperial (2003)
205. Los Angeles (2002-2005)
206. Holtville (1914)
207. Imperial reprise (1901-2004)
208. The conquest of arid America (1905).
Edition Notes
Originally published: New York : Viking, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references.
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