Research Catalog

Title

Fluid arguments : five centuries of western water conflict / edited by Char Miller.

Publication

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Miller, Char, 1951-

Description

xxix, 354 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Water rights > Southwestern States > History
• Water-supply > Government policy > Southwestern States
• Water-supply > Southwestern States > History

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

• Divining the Past: An Introduction / Char Miller -- Pt. 1. Land and Water on New Spain's Frontiers. 1. "Only Fit for Raising Stock": Spanish and Mexican Land and Water Rights in the Tamaulipan Cession / Jesus F. de la Teja. 2. Water, the Gila River Pimas, and the Arrival of the Spanish / Shelly C. Dudley. 3. "Between This River and That": Establishing Water Rights in the Chama Basin of New Mexico / Sandra K. Mathews-Lamb -- Pt. 2. The Native American Struggle for Water. 4. Maggot Creek and Other Tales: Kiowa Identity and Water, 1870-1920 / Bonnie Lynn-Sherow. 5. The Dilemmas of Indian Water Policy, 1887-1928 / Donald J. Pisani. 6. First in Time: Tribal Reserved Rights and General Adjudications in New Mexico / Alan S. Newell. 7. Winters Comes Home to Roost / Daniel McCool -- Pt. 3. Agricultural Conundrums. 8. Water, Sun, and Cattle: The Chisholm Trail as an Ephemeral Ecosystem / James E. Sherow. 9. Private Irrigation in Colorado's Grand Valley / Brad F. Raley.
• 10. A Rio Grande "Brew": Agriculture, Industry, and Water Quality in the Lower Rio Grande Valley / John P. Tiefenbacher. 11. Specialization and Diversification in the Agricultural System of Southwestern Kansas, 1887-1980 / Thomas C. Schafer. 12. John Wesley Powell Was Right: Resizing the Ogallala High Plains / John Opie -- Pt. 4. Dam those Waters! 13. Private Initiative, Public Works: Ed Fletcher, the Santa Fe Railway, and Phoenix's Cave Creek Flood Control Dam / Donald C. Jackson. 14. The Changing Fortunes of the Big Dam Era in the American West / Mark Harvey. 15. Building Dams and Damning People in the Texas-Mexico Border Region: Mexico's El Cuchillo Dam Project / Raul M. Sanchez -- Pt. 5. The Coming Fight. 16. Water and the Western Service Economy: A New Challenge / Hal K. Rothman.

ISBN

0816520615 (cloth : acid-free paper)

LCCN

00010450

OCLC

• 59403280
• ocm59403280
• SCSB-4205795

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries