Water and American government : the Reclamation Bureau, national water policy, and the West, 1902-1935 / Donald J. Pisani.

Author: Pisani, Donald J.

Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

Descriptionxviii, 394 p., [10] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Note:Saving lost lives : irrigation and the ideology of homemaking -- The perils of public works : Federal reclamation, 1902-1909 -- Case studies in irrigation and community : Twin Falls and Rupert -- An administrative morass : Federal reclamation, 1909-1917 -- Boom, bust and boom : Federal reclamation, 1917-1935 -- Uneasy allies : the Reclamation Service and the Bureau of Indian Affairs -- Case studies in water and power : the Yakima and the Pima -- Wiring the new West : the strange career of public power -- Gateway to the hydraulic age : water politics, 1920-1935 -- Conclusion : retrospect and significance.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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