Miller, Char (Editor)
University of Arizona Press
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.
Review Brosnan, Kathleen A. (2002) Review of "Fluid Arguments: Five Centuries of Western Water Conflict". Environmental History (p. 332).
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