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Rickard Goes In To Desert Valley Ambition
Engineer Rickard travels into Imperial Valley via Imperial Junction aboard an Overland Pacific train. He meets locals including Thomas Hardin and Brandon, discusses irrigation, land prices, and the Desert Reclamation company. The journey frames aridity as opportunity, cooperation, and social change in a newly forming agricultural desert town.
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Rickard
Synopala
Overland Pacific Railroad
Marshall
Tuscan
Ariz
Colorado River
Thomas Hardin
Desert Reclamation Company
Hardin
Eastern College
Gerty Holmes
Qverland Pacific
Imperial Valley
Imperial Junction
Big Eyes
Tucson
Beach
Sonce
Gulf
Richard
Ram‘page
Colorado
Mexico
D. R. Company
Estrada
Sather
Barton
Riverside
Tost
Chocolate of Commerce
California
Wyoming
Arizona
South America
Egypt
Damascus
India
Brawley
Utah
Imperial
Ano Arbor
Palo Alto
Grant Fields
Thisalley
Lovera House
Brandon
Brown Necktia
Beard
Overland Pacific Lines
Darky
Abere
Indead
Hasdig
Bank of Calexico
Calexico
Desert Hotel
Valley Innovation