Book ID: CBB000102176

Fluid Arguments: Five Centuries of Western Water Conflict (2001)

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Miller, Char (Editor)


University of Arizona Press


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: xxix + 354 pp., illus., maps, bibl., index
Language: English

Description Based on papers of 1998 conference, Trinity University. Interdisciplinary perspective on the role of water in the development of the American West, including the influence of Native American and Spanish cultures. Contents: Char Miller: Divining the Past: An Introduction. Pt. 1. Land and water on New Spain's frontiers. Jesús F. De La Teja: “Only fit for raising stock:” Spanish and Mexican land and water rights in the Tamaulipan Cession. Shelly C. Dudley: Water, the Gila River Pimas, and the arrival of the Spanish. Sandra K. Matthews-Lamb: “Between this river and that”: Establishing water rights in the Chama basin of New Mexico. Pt. 2. The Native American struggle for water. Bonnie Lynn-Sherow: Maggot Creek and other tales: Kiowa identity and water, 1870-1920. Donald J. Pisani: The dilemmas of Indian water policy, 1887-1928. Alan S. Newell: First in time: Tribal reserved water rights and general adjudications in New Mexico. Daniel McCool: Winters comes home to roost. Pt. 3. Agricultural conundrums. James E. Sherow: Water, sun, and cattle: The Chisholm Trail as an ephemeral ecosystem. Brad F. Raley: Private irrigation in Colorado's Grand Valley. John P. Tiefenbacher: A Rio Grande “brew:” Agriculture, industry, and water quality in the lower Rio Grande Valley. Thomas C. Schafer: Specialization and diversification in the agricultural system of Southwestern Kansas, 1887-1980. John Opie: John Wesley Powell was right: Resizing the Ogallala High Plains. Pt. 4. Dam those waters! Donald C. Jackson: Private initiative, public works: Ed Fletcher, the Santa Fe Railway, and Phoenix's Cave Creek Flood Control Dam. Mark Harvey: The changing fortunes of the big dam era in the American West. Raúl M. Sánchez: Building dams and damning people in the Texas-Mexico border region: Mexico's El Cuchillo Dam Project. Pt. 5. The coming fight. Hal K. Rothman: Water and the western service economy: A new challenge.


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Review Brosnan, Kathleen A. (2002) Review of "Fluid Arguments: Five Centuries of Western Water Conflict". Environmental History (p. 332). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Jackson, Donald C.
Akers, Harry F.
Beattie, James
Brooks, Karl Boyd
Colten, Craig E.
Heasley, Lynne
Journals
Environmental History
IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Environment and History
Historical Records of Australian Science
Social Studies of Science
Agri Centuriati, An International Journal of Landscape Archaeology
Publishers
University of Nebraska Press
Duke University Press
Louisiana State University Press
Potomac Books
Princeton University Press
Texas A&M University Press
Concepts
Water resource management
Dams
Water supply
Agriculture
Environmental history
Environmental sciences
People
Eastwood, John S.
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
United States
Great Plains (North America)
Colorado River (North America)
India
Mexico
Colorado (U.S.)
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