Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935Donald 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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... Interior Department's United States Geological Survey. Money from sales of public land paid for the first projects. To prevent some parts of the West from securing federal aid at the expense of others, at least 51 percent of the ...
... Interior Department's United States Geological Survey. Money from sales of public land paid for the first projects. To prevent some parts of the West from securing federal aid at the expense of others, at least 51 percent of the ...
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... the Milk River Project was one of the first authorized by the secretary of the interior.52 To limit speculation, Newell forbade government surveyors from talking to Montana newspaper editors and booster groups , and 14 saving lost lives.
... the Milk River Project was one of the first authorized by the secretary of the interior.52 To limit speculation, Newell forbade government surveyors from talking to Montana newspaper editors and booster groups , and 14 saving lost lives.
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... Interior De- partment , with the secretary of the interior empowered to spend up to $ 100 million a year— $ 1 billion in all — to purchase private land and clear , fence , and level it . The money could also be used to drain swamps ...
... Interior De- partment , with the secretary of the interior empowered to spend up to $ 100 million a year— $ 1 billion in all — to purchase private land and clear , fence , and level it . The money could also be used to drain swamps ...
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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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