The Industrial West: Act II

“Wheat Farming in California”

Isaac Friedlander

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/INCORP/food/kitchen/meat.html

Joseph G. McCoy

Male-Female Ratio, 1870

Male-Female Ratio: 1870

Eastern Cities• New York City: 49/51• Washington, D.C.: 47/53• Philadelphia: 48/52• New Orleans: 48/52

Western Cities• Topeka: 54/46• San Francisco: 58/42• Denver: 59/41• Portland: 59/41• Virginia City, NV: 67/33• Carson City: 76/24