The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of A Secret American Empire by Rick Wartzman, Mark Arax

The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of A Secret American Empire

Rick Wartzman, Mark Arax

592 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction biography business history informative slow-paced
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The fascinating story of a cotton magnate whose voracious appetite for land drove him to create the first big agricultural empire of the Central Valley of California, and shaped the landscape for decades to come. J.G. Boswell was the biggest farm...

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