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=100   #$$a Burns, John F.
=245  1#$$a Taming the Elephant : $b Politics, Government, and Law in Pioneer California /$c John F. Burns
=260  ##$$a Berkeley, London :$b Princeton University Press,$c 2003
=300  ##$$a xi, 288 p. : $b : ill. ; $c 26 cm
=520  ##$$a Preface As much as today's state legislators, officials, and bureaucrats are criticized in California?sometimes with just cause?the first generation of political and governmental leaders was even more vilified in its own day.
=650   4$$a California -- Politics and government -- 1846-1850.
=650   4$$a Frontier and pioneer life -- California
=650   4$$a California -- Social conditions -- 19th century
=990  ##$$a 05155/MKRI-P/I-2008
=990  ##$$a 05155/MKRI-P/I-2008