![]() ![]() ![]() The events happened in the 1880s, and the novel came out in about 1901.In that same year, Dreiser's Sister Carrie was published. The railroad had also enticed farmers to farm land given to them as an incentive to build (every other section) by promising to sell it to them at the unimproved price of 2.50 and acre - then reneged on this and priced it from $20 to 40 an acre after the farmers had made improvements. But, to put it in context, it is written about the conflict between farmers, mostly large farmers, in California and their struggles against the railroad which was charging high rates - being a monopoly, and having political influence allowing them to withstand court cases against them. ![]()
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