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Watering the Valley - Development Along the High Plains Arkansas River, 1870-1950 (Hardcover, New)
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Watering the Valley - Development Along the High Plains Arkansas River, 1870-1950 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Development of Western Resources
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James Earl Sherow contends that a vast network of problems in the
arid West has sprung from the mistaken notion that water is a
commodity to be bought, sold, and traded. This ill-conceived
approach to water development, he argues, has resulted in social
problems as well as abuse of the environment. In this volume he
tells the story of the inhabitants of the "Valley of Content," the
High Plains section of the Arkansas River Valley, during the
formative period of settlement and development. It was their desire
for growth, he maintains, that spurred the construction of the very
dams, reservoirs, and water conveyance structures that would
ultimately undermine their success. He documents their
attempts--both fanciful and fruitful--to bring the river under
their control, the waves of new problems that followed each new
'solution, ' and the conflict and cooperation the process
engendered. "This is a most important book. Sherow's thesis is
compelling. He provides a definitive study for the period, . . .
examining water use affecting agriculture, industry, and urban
areas in Colorado and agriculture in Kansas. This book will be
worthy of a place beside Don Pisani's From the Family Farm to
Agribusiness: The Irrigation Crusade in California and the West,
1850-1930 and Norris Hundley's Water in California. It adds an
important new dimension to the discussion of water in the West, a
topic that is no longer one of merely regional concern."--Richard
Lowitt, author of The New Deal and the West
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