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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... charge of partiality, your desire being for such wide distribution of both work and capital as will secure the earliest demonstration of the value of the Irrigation program to the arid and semiarid States and Territories.” Hitchcock ...
... charge of partiality, your desire being for such wide distribution of both work and capital as will secure the earliest demonstration of the value of the Irrigation program to the arid and semiarid States and Territories.” Hitchcock ...
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... charge of the work . Irrigation and drainage go hand in hand .... Detailed surveys of vast areas of submerged lands have been made and maps and other data are on file in the office of the U.S. Geological Survey .... The National ...
... charge of the work . Irrigation and drainage go hand in hand .... Detailed surveys of vast areas of submerged lands have been made and maps and other data are on file in the office of the U.S. Geological Survey .... The National ...
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... charged Newell with incompetence and favoritism . The north- ern plains had contributed far more to the reclamation fund than Arizona , but Hansbrough claimed that Newell and Maxwell had favored the Salt River Project in Arizona from ...
... charged Newell with incompetence and favoritism . The north- ern plains had contributed far more to the reclamation fund than Arizona , but Hansbrough claimed that Newell and Maxwell had favored the Salt River Project in Arizona from ...
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... charge of sixteen men at a camp near Embudo, New Mexico, on the Rio Grande. There he tested surveying instruments and devised methods of stream measurement for the Irrigation Survey. Subsequently, Newell examined streams in Utah, Col ...
... charge of sixteen men at a camp near Embudo, New Mexico, on the Rio Grande. There he tested surveying instruments and devised methods of stream measurement for the Irrigation Survey. Subsequently, Newell examined streams in Utah, Col ...
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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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