I love these puritanical notions. Gotta be good, hard-working, cold-hardened folk! >Employed by the transcontinental railroads, influential writers like Charle

I love these puritanical notions. Gotta be good, hard-working, cold-hardened folk! >Employed by the transcontinental railroads, influential writers like Charles Nordhoff contested eastern notions of Southern California as barren desert where “Anglo-Americans” would inevitably succumb to the “disease” of laziness.