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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Page xiv
... survey of potential reservoir sites in Colorado and Wyoming, insisting, “It is no more than fair and just that these arid-land States shall participate hereafter in the deliberations, emoluments, and perquisites of river and harbor ...
... survey of potential reservoir sites in Colorado and Wyoming, insisting, “It is no more than fair and just that these arid-land States shall participate hereafter in the deliberations, emoluments, and perquisites of river and harbor ...
Page xv
... Survey, an agency within the Interior Department, to study dam and canal sites on the public domain (1888–90), and in the middle of the 1890s asked the USGS to measure the volume of the nation's rivers. Always careful to balance the ...
... Survey, an agency within the Interior Department, to study dam and canal sites on the public domain (1888–90), and in the middle of the 1890s asked the USGS to measure the volume of the nation's rivers. Always careful to balance the ...
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... Survey. Money from sales of public land paid for the first projects. To prevent some parts of the West from securing federal aid at the expense of others, at least 51 percent of the proceeds had to be spent within the state or territory ...
... Survey. Money from sales of public land paid for the first projects. To prevent some parts of the West from securing federal aid at the expense of others, at least 51 percent of the proceeds had to be spent within the state or territory ...
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... Survey—to underscore the importance of paying close attention to the politics of recla- mation: “I dwelt upon this ... surveys were planned for saving lost lives 3.
... Survey—to underscore the importance of paying close attention to the politics of recla- mation: “I dwelt upon this ... surveys were planned for saving lost lives 3.
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... Survey, and George H. Maxwell, fed- eral reclamation's chief publicist in the years from 1896 to 1902, sought to broaden the membership of the annual National Irrigation Congress, whose conferences traditionally were held in the West ...
... Survey, and George H. Maxwell, fed- eral reclamation's chief publicist in the years from 1896 to 1902, sought to broaden the membership of the annual National Irrigation Congress, whose conferences traditionally were held in the West ...
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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