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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... West would forever re- main the nation's backwater. To Bryan and many of his contemporaries, in- cluding the young historian Frederick Jackson Turner, the family farm had to spread across the West before the region could be anything ...
... West would forever re- main the nation's backwater. To Bryan and many of his contemporaries, in- cluding the young historian Frederick Jackson Turner, the family farm had to spread across the West before the region could be anything ...
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... West's increasing power in Congress. In 1889 and 1890, the western states doubled in number as North and South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming entered the union, join- ing California, Nevada, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska ...
... West's increasing power in Congress. In 1889 and 1890, the western states doubled in number as North and South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming entered the union, join- ing California, Nevada, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska ...
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... western hopes forged a political coalition capable of overcoming the igno- rance, disdain, and suspicion most members of Congress felt toward the West. Nevertheless, reclamation was still a western measure. The West had the power to ...
... western hopes forged a political coalition capable of overcoming the igno- rance, disdain, and suspicion most members of Congress felt toward the West. Nevertheless, reclamation was still a western measure. The West had the power to ...
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The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935 Donald J. Pisani. citing place to work. Thanks ... western United States history I hold at the University of Oklahoma. I have benefited enormously from their ...
The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935 Donald J. Pisani. citing place to work. Thanks ... western United States history I hold at the University of Oklahoma. I have benefited enormously from their ...
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... West from securing federal aid at the expense of others, at least 51 percent of the proceeds had to be spent within the state or territory in which the land had been sold. The secretary of the interior could limit the size of project ...
... West from securing federal aid at the expense of others, at least 51 percent of the proceeds had to be spent within the state or territory in which the land had been sold. The secretary of the interior could limit the size of project ...
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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