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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... measure the volume of the nation's rivers. Always careful to balance the power of new executive agencies against old, in 1898 Congress created the Office of Irrigation Investigations within the Office preface and acknowledgments xv.
... measure the volume of the nation's rivers. Always careful to balance the power of new executive agencies against old, in 1898 Congress created the Office of Irrigation Investigations within the Office preface and acknowledgments xv.
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... created the Office of Irrigation Investigations within the Office of Experiment Stations in the U.S. Department of Agriculture to explore prac- tical problems of desert agriculture , including the amount of water needed to grow various ...
... created the Office of Irrigation Investigations within the Office of Experiment Stations in the U.S. Department of Agriculture to explore prac- tical problems of desert agriculture , including the amount of water needed to grow various ...
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... created within 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 ...
... created within 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 ...
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... created in 1902 to pay for drainage in his state, under supervision of the Office of Ir- rigation Investigations in the Department of Agriculture. Congressman John H. Small of North Carolina asked for $1 million from the same fund to ...
... created in 1902 to pay for drainage in his state, under supervision of the Office of Ir- rigation Investigations in the Department of Agriculture. Congressman John H. Small of North Carolina asked for $1 million from the same fund to ...
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... created a drainage fund from the sale of government lands outside the arid states . He promised that 80 million acres of swampland could be drained for an aver- age cost of five dollars an acre , providing homes for 5 million people ...
... created a drainage fund from the sale of government lands outside the arid states . He promised that 80 million acres of swampland could be drained for an aver- age cost of five dollars an acre , providing homes for 5 million people ...
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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