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Co-Operative Dreams: A History of the Kaweah Colony

Foreword: Co-Operative Dreams – A History of the Kaweah Colony

August 12, 2020 By Jay O'Connell 3 Comments

Making Cooperation a Dream

When I began work on this book in 1991, the largest Marxist-inspired society in history was in the midst of collapse. Monuments to that great experiment were being destroyed — statues were toppled and walls were knocked down. Soviet communism, as established by … [Read more...] about Foreword: Co-Operative Dreams – A History of the Kaweah Colony

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Chapter 1: Keller and California Land

August 12, 2020 By Jay O'Connell Leave a Comment

Making Cooperation a Dream

Having occasion to take a train down the valley I was fortunate to find a seat… behind two men who were civil engineers.[One] informed his companion that east of Visalia was the most magnificent forest in the state of giant redwoods [which had] lately been … [Read more...] about Chapter 1: Keller and California Land

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Chapter 2: Haskell and the Labor Movement

August 12, 2020 By Jay O'Connell Leave a Comment

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Burnette G. Haskell, of San Francisco, [was] one of the most erratic and brilliant geniuses in the history of the labor movement on the Pacific Coast.(Ira Cross, History of the Labor Movement in California) The Co-Operative Land Purchase and Colonization … [Read more...] about Chapter 2: Haskell and the Labor Movement

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Chapter 3: Stewart and the Land Office

August 12, 2020 By Jay O'Connell Leave a Comment

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Plans were matured with little delay, and on October 5, 1885, thirty-seven persons appeared at the United States Land Office in Visalia to make application to enter tracts of this land under the Timber and Stone Law (Act of 1878). (George W. Stewart) When … [Read more...] about Chapter 3: Stewart and the Land Office

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Chapter 4: Road Work Begins

August 12, 2020 By Jay O'Connell Leave a Comment

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So the work began — a work in reality stupendous, contemplating as it did the building of a mountain road for twenty miles to cost not less than a quarter of a million, upon a cash capital of some twenty-five dollars and by about thirty enthusiastic but … [Read more...] about Chapter 4: Road Work Begins

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Chapter 5: Crisis and Settlement

August 12, 2020 By Jay O'Connell Leave a Comment

Making Cooperation a Dream

Far better that the Colony die than that it be perverted from its first great purpose of demonstrating the fact that men can govern themselves without being 'bossed' —without imperialism.(Burnette Haskell, 'The Crisis') Well, I don’t see the necessity … [Read more...] about Chapter 5: Crisis and Settlement

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Chapter 6: Pioneers of Kaweah

August 12, 2020 By Jay O'Connell Leave a Comment

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To me, the fascinating part is not the principle Kaweah involved, but the people who made it up. To know them, with their strengths and failings, is to love them. (Joseph E. Doctor, Tulare County Historian and Country Journalist) Spanish explorer Gabriel … [Read more...] about Chapter 6: Pioneers of Kaweah

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Chapter 7: On the Road to Success

August 12, 2020 By Jay O'Connell Leave a Comment

Making Cooperation a Dream

…the best mountain road I ever traveled over. (Andrew Cauldwell) What life was like for the workers building the Colony’s road to the timber can only be imagined. The “men of backbone, brawn and brain,” as Haskell once praised them, were not as prone … [Read more...] about Chapter 7: On the Road to Success

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Chapter 8: From the Pages of the Commonwealth

August 12, 2020 By Jay O'Connell Leave a Comment

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Everybody happy. (The Kaweah Commonwealth, July 12, 1890) Scanning the pages of the Kaweah Commonwealth, can one really get an accurate account of what life was like for the colonists? It has been argued that as a reliable historical source, the … [Read more...] about Chapter 8: From the Pages of the Commonwealth

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Chapter 9: Two Rising Movements

August 12, 2020 By Jay O'Connell Leave a Comment

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Evolution is the rock upon which Nationalism is founded.(Denver Labor Enquirer) The movement looking toward the reservation of a tract of timber land near the summit of the Sierra has at last taken definite shape.(Visalia Weekly Delta) As the final … [Read more...] about Chapter 9: Two Rising Movements

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