The Elusive Eden Chapter Thirteen
The Confrontation of Mussel Slough

1. Where is Mussel Slough Country?
2. What made Visalia an attractive farming area in the 1870s?
3. What was the relationship between The Central and Southern Pacific Railroads?
4. What was “the Big Four?”
5. What happened at Tres Pinos?
6. What did Leland Stanford and Henry H. Haight have in common and what made them different?
7. What were Hanford, Lemoore, and Huron?
8. Why did individuals pool their water rights around Mussel Slough?
9. How did land prices around Visalia vary between 1870 and 1880?
10. What was the purpose of the 1866 Southern Pacific land grant?
11. What did the completion deadline refer to?
12. What was The Grand League?
13. Who was John J. Doyle?
14. What were even-number government sections?
15. What was the relationship between the Pre-emption Act of 1841, the Homestead Act of 1862, portable cabins, multiple claims and non-habitation?
16. Who was Thomas Jefferson McQuiddy?
17. What position did the San Francisco Chronicle take regarding conflicts such that at Mussel Slough?
18. What position did the Working Man’s Party of California take regarding conflicts such that at Mussel Slough?
19. Who was Denis Kearney?
20. What was “the incident” of May 11, 1880
21. Who was Alonzo W. Poole, William H. Clark, Mills Hart and Walter Crow?
22. What was the “Tragedy Oak?”
23. What was the Greenback Party?
24. Who was the target of “Impending Retribution” according to The Wasp?