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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... Valley , in Arizona , Wallace asked a woman who had recently arrived from Detroit how she liked the desert . “ Oh , I just hate it , ” she replied . “ If I could get away I wouldn't stay here if you would give me the whole town of ...
... Valley , in Arizona , Wallace asked a woman who had recently arrived from Detroit how she liked the desert . “ Oh , I just hate it , ” she replied . “ If I could get away I wouldn't stay here if you would give me the whole town of ...
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... Valley, in Montana, and the Northern Pacific focused on the Yakima Valley, in Washington. Congress had granted the Northern Pacific Railroad 17.5 million acres in Montana and another 11 million acres in Washington.49 In 1900, the ...
... Valley, in Montana, and the Northern Pacific focused on the Yakima Valley, in Washington. Congress had granted the Northern Pacific Railroad 17.5 million acres in Montana and another 11 million acres in Washington.49 In 1900, the ...
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... Valley until an international treaty had defined each nation's rights to the river . Meanwhile , he hoped to find a project that included more government land . But the more projects that were proposed , the more intractable the ...
... Valley until an international treaty had defined each nation's rights to the river . Meanwhile , he hoped to find a project that included more government land . But the more projects that were proposed , the more intractable the ...
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... Valley in December 1902 and spent the next seven or eight months organizing the Salt River Valley water users ' association as an inducement for the federal government to build a reservoir to aid landowners around Phoenix . Prior to ...
... Valley in December 1902 and spent the next seven or eight months organizing the Salt River Valley water users ' association as an inducement for the federal government to build a reservoir to aid landowners around Phoenix . Prior to ...
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... Valley Canal , one mile from the terminus of Phoenix's street railway system , as the site of one of his first homecroft experiments . After leveling the tract , he planted palm and olive trees , subdivided the land into five - acre ...
... Valley Canal , one mile from the terminus of Phoenix's street railway system , as the site of one of his first homecroft experiments . After leveling the tract , he planted palm and olive trees , subdivided the land into five - acre ...
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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