Watering the Valley: Development along the High Plains Arkansas River, 1870-1950
Language: English
Published by University Press of Kansas, 1991
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- Hardcover
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Original hardcover in jacket, first edition, contains several historical b + w plates, maps; 222 pages, index. Book is solid and bright overall; some fading along spine, edges; previous owner name on blank endpaper. Very nice. gc5.
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- Title
- Watering the Valley: Development along the High Plains Arkansas River, 1870-1950
- Author
- Sherow, James E.
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0700604405
- ISBN 13
- 9780700604401
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
"This is a most important book. Sherow's thesis is compelling. He provides a definitive study for the period, . . . examining water use affecting agriculture, industry, and urban areas in Colorado and agriculture in Kansas. This book will be worthy of a place beside Don Pisani's From the Family Farm to Agribusiness: The Irrigation Crusade in California and the West, 1850-1930 and Norris Hundley's Water in California. It adds an important new dimension to the discussion of water in the West, a topic that is no longer one of merely regional concern."--Richard Lowitt, author of The New Deal and the West
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"James Sherow is to be congratulated for this volume. His research is impressive, and he writes with vigor and wit."--Journal of American History
"Sherow's synthesis of cultural, economic, and environmental influences is an important milestone in understanding the history of water and the West. His book should be considered required reading for anyone concerned with the topic."--Montana The Magazine of Western History
"A carefully crafted and scholarly work that illuminates the important issue of water 'control' and planning."--American Historical Review
"The book is a well-wrought case study of resource development in a particular time and place. One can only hope that future publications on Great Plains environmental history will maintain the high standards set by this volume."--Kansas History
"This is a noteworthy study that argues a convincing case."--Choice
"This is a most important book. Sherow's thesis is compelling. He provides a definitive study for the period, . . . examining water use affecting agriculture, industry, and urban areas in Colorado and agriculture in Kansas. This book will be worthy of a place beside Don Pisani's From the Family Farm to Agribusiness: The Irrigation Crusade in California and the West, 1850-1930 and Norris Hundley's Water in California. It adds an important new dimension to the discussion of water in the West, a topic that is no longer one of merely regional concern."--Richard Lowitt, author of The New Deal and the West
"Following the philosophical lead of new western historians Richard White, Donald Worster, and others, Sherow focuses on the failure of the Arkansas Valley residents to achieve nirvana through development of irrigated agriculture. The failure of ditch companies and municipalities to consider 'ecological niches' and their dependence on a market culture mentality produced environmental degradation, social conflict, and seemingly endless intra- and interstate litigation. This provocative study will challenge water buffaloes to rethink some of their basic premises."--Daniel Tyler, author of The Mythical Pueblo Rights Doctrine: Water Administration in Hispanic New Mexico
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