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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... town of Glendale . My husband brought me out here for my health , but I would rather go back to Detroit and die . " " 33 The isolated pioneer phase of settlement would quickly pass — or so the Reclamation Service promised . Such ...
... town of Glendale . My husband brought me out here for my health , but I would rather go back to Detroit and die . " " 33 The isolated pioneer phase of settlement would quickly pass — or so the Reclamation Service promised . Such ...
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... towns until passage of the Townsite Act of 1906. That law raised the possibility of town build- ing on the government projects, and the “father” of national reclamation, Francis G. Newlands, predicted that in the near future the ...
... towns until passage of the Townsite Act of 1906. That law raised the possibility of town build- ing on the government projects, and the “father” of national reclamation, Francis G. Newlands, predicted that in the near future the ...
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... town and par- ticipate in civic and social affairs.3 38 In 1906 , the Reclamation Service drafted plans for a model town a half mile square , built around a school and business district . Eight boulevards ra- diated out from the center of ...
... town and par- ticipate in civic and social affairs.3 38 In 1906 , the Reclamation Service drafted plans for a model town a half mile square , built around a school and business district . Eight boulevards ra- diated out from the center of ...
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... town so that playgrounds could be situated within a quarter- mile of each home. No park should interrupt the major ... towns exhibited the same forlorn, ramshackle look as frontier towns everywhere in the West. As chapter 3 notes ...
... town so that playgrounds could be situated within a quarter- mile of each home. No park should interrupt the major ... towns exhibited the same forlorn, ramshackle look as frontier towns everywhere in the West. As chapter 3 notes ...
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... Towns and Villages , where Trade and Industry can be so firmly anchored that they cannot be drawn into the Commercial Mael- strom that is now steadily sucking Industry and Humanity into the Vortex of the Great Cities . . . . We believe ...
... Towns and Villages , where Trade and Industry can be so firmly anchored that they cannot be drawn into the Commercial Mael- strom that is now steadily sucking Industry and Humanity into the Vortex of the Great Cities . . . . We believe ...
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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