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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The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935 Donald J. Pisani. CONTENTS LIST OF MAPS / ix ... Federal Reclamation , 1902–1909 / 32 I 3. Case Studies in Irrigation and Community Twin Falls and Rupert / 65 4. An ...
The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935 Donald J. Pisani. CONTENTS LIST OF MAPS / ix ... Federal Reclamation , 1902–1909 / 32 I 3. Case Studies in Irrigation and Community Twin Falls and Rupert / 65 4. An ...
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... federal reclamation nominally began with the goal of systematically and completely developing the arid lands . In 1902 , there was little doubt that land- hungry Americans would flock to the government's irrigated farms and that the ...
... federal reclamation nominally began with the goal of systematically and completely developing the arid lands . In 1902 , there was little doubt that land- hungry Americans would flock to the government's irrigated farms and that the ...
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... federal budget, Civil War veterans' pensions and river and harbor appropriations, both benefited the eastern half of the nation al- most exclusively. The crusade for federal reclamation, like the campaign for free silver, erupted in ...
... federal budget, Civil War veterans' pensions and river and harbor appropriations, both benefited the eastern half of the nation al- most exclusively. The crusade for federal reclamation, like the campaign for free silver, erupted in ...
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... Reclamation Act passed Congress , federal officials knew surprisingly little about how much unclaimed or “ surplus ” water the region's lakes and rivers contained , and almost nothing about its underground water sources , or the nature ...
... Reclamation Act passed Congress , federal officials knew surprisingly little about how much unclaimed or “ surplus ” water the region's lakes and rivers contained , and almost nothing about its underground water sources , or the nature ...
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... Reclamation Act into law—often called the Newlands Act in honor of the legislation's spon- sor in the House of Representatives, Francis G. Newlands of Nevada.1 The legislation directed the national government to construct irrigation ...
... Reclamation Act into law—often called the Newlands Act in honor of the legislation's spon- sor in the House of Representatives, Francis G. Newlands of Nevada.1 The legislation directed the national government to construct irrigation ...
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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