Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935University of California Press, 2002 M12 31 - 408 pages Donald Pisani's history of perhaps the boldest economic and social program ever undertaken in the United States--to reclaim and cultivate vast areas of previously unusable land across the country—shows in fascinating detail how ambitious government programs fall prey to the power of local interest groups and the federal system of governance itself. What began as the underwriting of a variety of projects to create family farms and farming communities had become by the 1930s a massive public works and regional development program, with an emphasis on the urban as much as on the rural West. |
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... South, suggested that the United States could absorb an unlimited amount of new cultivated land. There could never be too much. Once the best land on the Great Plains had been taken, the United States resorted to a form of continental ...
... South, suggested that the United States could absorb an unlimited amount of new cultivated land. There could never be too much. Once the best land on the Great Plains had been taken, the United States resorted to a form of continental ...
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... South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming entered the union, join- ing California, Nevada, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, and Texas. The region west of the Mississippi contained less than 10 percent of the nation's popu- lation ...
... South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming entered the union, join- ing California, Nevada, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, and Texas. The region west of the Mississippi contained less than 10 percent of the nation's popu- lation ...
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... South and upper Midwest . By doing so , they hoped to give the service a national mission and constituency . At the beginning of the twentieth century , the main responsibility of national water policy was to maintain and improve naviga ...
... South and upper Midwest . By doing so , they hoped to give the service a national mission and constituency . At the beginning of the twentieth century , the main responsibility of national water policy was to maintain and improve naviga ...
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... South Carolina Alabama Georgia R Nevada CARSON R. Lake Tahoe UIN RI SNAKE Wyoming L- utah COLORADO RIVER Colorado 1 South ¡ Dakota Ο URI RIVER Nebraska PLATTE RIVER Kansas ARKANSAS RIVER ¡ Minnesota lowa N JOAD California Arizona SALT R ...
... South Carolina Alabama Georgia R Nevada CARSON R. Lake Tahoe UIN RI SNAKE Wyoming L- utah COLORADO RIVER Colorado 1 South ¡ Dakota Ο URI RIVER Nebraska PLATTE RIVER Kansas ARKANSAS RIVER ¡ Minnesota lowa N JOAD California Arizona SALT R ...
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... SOUTH SIDE PROJECT Twin Falls MILNER DAM Map 3. Snake River irrigation , central Idaho . MINIDOKA PROJECT 1SLAND PARK RESERVOIR FI KISLAND PARK DAM YELLOW STONE NATIONAL PARK HENRYS SNAKE RIVER PALISADES RESERVOIR IDAHO WYOMING Jackson ...
... SOUTH SIDE PROJECT Twin Falls MILNER DAM Map 3. Snake River irrigation , central Idaho . MINIDOKA PROJECT 1SLAND PARK RESERVOIR FI KISLAND PARK DAM YELLOW STONE NATIONAL PARK HENRYS SNAKE RIVER PALISADES RESERVOIR IDAHO WYOMING Jackson ...
Contents
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Federal Reclamation 19021909 | 32 |
Twin Falls and Rupert | 65 |
Federal Reclamation 19091917 | 96 |
Federal Reclamation 19171935 | 123 |
The Reclamation Service and the Bureau of Indian Affairs | 154 |
Illustrations | 180 |
The Yakima and the Pima | 181 |
The Strange Career of Public Power | 202 |
Water Politics 19201935 | 235 |
Retrospect and Significance | 272 |
ABBREVIATIONS | 297 |
NOTES | 299 |
INDEX | 389 |
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