Well received by critics when first published in 1941. The Cattle on a Thousand Hills describes Southern California in its transition from a cattle frontier of Mexican rule and culture to an agricultural American community on the eve of great industrial and urban expansion. The story includes the conversion of great grazing ranchos into farms and settlements, the gradual displacement of frontier violence and instability by a more restrained, law-abiding society, and the impact of Anglo-Saxon customs and institutions upon the pastoral life of the Spanish-Californians.
- ISBN10 0873280970
- ISBN13 9780873280976
- Publish Date 2 March 2005 (first published 1 January 1990)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Huntington Library Press,US
- Edition 2nd Revised ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 381
- Language English