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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... less than 10 percent resided in the western half. Progressive Era politicians sought to move people to resources as well as resources to people. Conservation represented not just “the great- est good for the greatest number for the ...
... less than 10 percent resided in the western half. Progressive Era politicians sought to move people to resources as well as resources to people. Conservation represented not just “the great- est good for the greatest number for the ...
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... less than 10 percent of the nation's popu- lation, and only a handful of seats in the House of Representatives, but it now had substantial power in the Senate. Nevertheless, profound differences divided the Great Plains, Rocky Mountain ...
... less than 10 percent of the nation's popu- lation, and only a handful of seats in the House of Representatives, but it now had substantial power in the Senate. Nevertheless, profound differences divided the Great Plains, Rocky Mountain ...
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... Less than 2 percent hailed from Indiana and Ohio, and less than 1 percent from Pennsylvania and New York. From the begin- ning of the federal reclamation program, government farmers came from within the West; most moved no more than ...
... Less than 2 percent hailed from Indiana and Ohio, and less than 1 percent from Pennsylvania and New York. From the begin- ning of the federal reclamation program, government farmers came from within the West; most moved no more than ...
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... no improvements save for a three-room shack worth less than $150. With utterly no agricul- tural experience, Bianchi watched his neighbors and did as they did, setting out one acre of strawberries and a half acre of saving lost lives 9.
... no improvements save for a three-room shack worth less than $150. With utterly no agricul- tural experience, Bianchi watched his neighbors and did as they did, setting out one acre of strawberries and a half acre of saving lost lives 9.
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... less absorbed with Making Money , and should pay more heed to raising up and training Men who will be Law- Abiding Citizens ; that the welfare of our Workers is of more consequence than the mere accumulation of Wealth ; and that ...
... less absorbed with Making Money , and should pay more heed to raising up and training Men who will be Law- Abiding Citizens ; that the welfare of our Workers is of more consequence than the mere accumulation of Wealth ; and that ...
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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