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SELECTED READINGS

IN THE HISTORY OF

THE BUREAU OF RECLAMATION

INTRODUCTION TO THE SELECTED READINGS LIST

Readers in the history of Reclamation will quickly learn that writers differ markedly on how

to interpret its past. Historical accounts about the Bureau of Reclamation often, more so than for

other Department of the Interior bureaus, have been colored sharply by their time and by the personal

views of the author. Writers over time have perceived Reclamation as both hero and villain.

Historical interpretation of Reclamation is a very complex task because a constantly evolving body

of legislation, decisions, policies, and politics has combined with the changing economic health of the

nation to shape Reclamation over nearly a century.

This “Selected Reading List” is an attempt to provide a starting point for readers interested in the

history of Reclamation or the evolution of Western water policy and development. Various,

occasionally extreme, points of view are represented in this list. Before arriving at final conclusions

about the difficult public policy issues raised by Reclamation’s historic role in Western water

development and management, the careful researcher will read fairly extensively. Charles Wilkinson’s

Crossing the Next Meridian contains a brief overview of Reclamation’s history and evolution that is

generally good, and readers might find that a useful place to begin looking at Reclamation’s history.

Primary and original records related to Bureau of Reclamation history. Unlike the situation

with most other Federal agencies, researchers in the history of Reclamation will find the Bureau of

Reclamation’s historic records concentrated in one location — the National Archives and Records
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Administration (NARA) branch on the Denver Federal Center in Lakewood, Colorado. Records held

there include over 8,000 cubic feet of material which include correspondence, memoranda, project

histories, construction notes, drawings, plans and maps, and photographs. More recent Reclamation

records of interest to researchers are held in Reclamation offices in Washington, D.C. and Denver,

regional offices, area offices, and field offices. 

In addition, the records of the Secretary of the Interior and of other Federal agencies may be

useful research sources. These records are located in NARA in College Park, Maryland, and in

various Federal offices and NARA branches in the West.

Reclamation also has an active history research program aimed at writing brief narrative

histories of each Reclamation project and obtaining oral history interviews with a broad range of

Reclamation employees. While available through the history program, these materials are also

deposited at the Department of the Interior’s Library and the Library of Congress in Washington,

D.C., the Beineke Library at Yale University, the Western History Collection of the Denver Public

Library, the Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming, the Newberry Library in Chicago, the

Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and the Water Archives at the University of California

in Berkeley.

Brit Allan Storey

Senior Historian

Bureau of Reclamation

P. O. Box 25007

Denver, Colorado 80225-0007

(303) 445-2918

bstorey@do.usbr.gov

fax: (303) 445-6470

Revised April 2000

Learn more about Reclamation’s history program: http://www.usbr.gov/history

Learn more about Reclamation and its programs: http://www.usbr.gov

SELECTED READING LIST:

THE BUREAU OF RECLAMATION

This selected reading list represents a small percentage of the literature available on the Bureau of

Reclamation. It is intended to provide a starting point for reading and research in the history of 

Reclamation.

Adams, John A. Damming the Colorado: The Rise of the Lower Colorado River Authority, 1933-1939. College

Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1990.

Allen, Marion V. Hoover Dam and Boulder City. Redding, California: CP Printing & Publishing, 1983.

__________. Rio Colorado and Parker Dam. Redding, California: River City Printing and Publishing, 1987.
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__________. Shasta Dam and Its Builders. Shingletown, California: Marion V. Allen, 1987 (second printing).

Armstrong, Ellis L., ed. “Irrigation,” Chapter in History of Public Works in the United States, 1776-1976. 

Chicago: American Public Works Association, 1976.

Austin, Boyd. “River of the West: Irrigation and Reclamation.” Idaho Yesterdays 5 (Spring 1961): 18-21.

Autobee, Robert. “Rye Patch Dam: A New Deal for the Lower Humboldt.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly

37 (Fall 1994): 200-214.

Beard, Daniel P. “The Passage of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act, 1991-1992: The Role of George

Miller.” Oral History interview by Malca Chall, 1996. Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library,

University of California.

Berkman, Richard L. Damming the West (Ralph Nader’s Study Group Report on the Bureau of Reclamation). 

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1973.

Bogener, Stephen Dean. “Ditches Across the Desert: A Story of Irrigation Along New Mexico’s Pecos River.” 

Ph.D. dissertation, Texas Tech University, December 1997.

Briggs Charles L. and John R. Van Ness, Land, Water, and Culture: New Perspectives on Hispanic Land Grants. 

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987.

Brookings Institution Institute for Government Research, The U.S. Reclamation Service: Its History, Activities,

and Organization. [Service Monographs of the United States Government, No. 2.] New York, London: D.

Appleton and Company, 1919. [Reprint: New York: AMS Press, 1974.

Burton, Lloyd. American Indian Water Rights and the Limits of Law. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas,

1991.

Cannon, Brian Q. “Quite a Wrestling Match: Adaptation of Dryland Farmers to Irrigation.” Agricultural History

66 (Spring 1992): 120-136.

__________. “Homesteading the Promised Land: Reclamation in the Northwest, 1902-1924.” Paper for the

Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the AHA, 1997.

__________. Remaking the Agrarian Dream: New Deal Rural Resettlement in the Mountain West. Albuquerque: 

University of New Mexico Press, 1996.

__________. “‘We Are Now Entering a New Era’”: Federal Reclamation and the Fact Finding Commission of

1923-1924.” Pacific Historical Review 66 (May 1997): 185-211.

Checchio, Elizabeth, and Bonnie G. Colby. Indian Water Rights: Negotiating the Future. Tucson: The University

of Arizona, Water Resources Research Center, June 1993.

Cleaveland, Frederic N. “Administrative Decentralization in the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation.” Public

Administration Review 13 (Winter 1953), pp. ???-???.

Clemings, Russell. Mirage: The False Promise of Desert Agriculture. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1996.

Coate, Charles Eugene. “Water, Power, and Politics in the Central Valley Project, 1933-1967.” Ph.D.

dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1969.
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Cone, Joseph and Ridlington, Sandy, eds. The Northwest Salmon Crisis: A Documentary History. Corvallis: 

Oregon State University Press, 1996.

Davison, Stanley Roland. The Leadership of the Reclamation Movement, 1875-1902. New York: Arno Press,

1979.

Dawdy, Doris Ostrander. Congress in Its Wisdom: The Bureau of Reclamation and the Public Interest. Boulder,

San Francisco, London: Westview Press, 1989.

DeMark, Judith Boyce, ed. Essays in Twentieth Century New Mexico History. Albuquerque: University of New

Mexico Press, 1994.

Dietrich, William. Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.

Dean, Robert. “‘Dam Building Still Had Some Magic Then’”: Stewart Udall, the Central Arizona Project, and the

Evolution of the Pacific Southwest Water Plan, 1963-1968.” Pacific Historical Review 66 (Feb 1997): 81-

98.

Dietrich, William. Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.

Dunar, Andrew J. and Dennis Mc Bride. Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History of the Great Depression. New

York: Twayne Publishers, 1993.

Eliott, Gary E. Senator Alan Bible and the Politics of the New West. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1994.

Etulain, Richard W., ed. The American West in the Twentieth Century: A Bibliography. Norman, London: 

University of Oklahoma Press, 1994.

Fahey, John. “Selling the Watered West: Arcadia Orchards.” Pacific Historical Review 62 (Nov 1993): 453-474.

Ferrell, John R. Big Dam Era: A Legislative and Institutional History of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program. 

Omaha, Nebraska: Missouri River Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1993.

Ficken, Robert E. Rufus Woods: The Columbia River, and the Building of Modern Washington. Pullman: 

Washington State University Press, 1995.

Fradkin, Philip L. A River No More: The Colorado River and the West. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1968.

Friedkin, Joseph F. “The International Problem with Mexico Over the Salinity of the Lower Colorado River.” In

Water and the American West: Essays in Honor of Raphael J. Moses, ed. David H. Getches. Boulder: 

Natural Resources Law Center, University of Colorado School of Law, 1988.

Gates, Paul Wallace. History of Public Land Law Development. Washington, D.C.: Zenger Publishing Co., Inc.,

1968.

Gaul, John J., compiler. Reclamation 1902-1938: A Supplemental Bibliography. Denver: Denver Public Library,

1939.

Gaylord, J. M. and Savage, J. L. High-Pressure Reservoir Outlets: A Report on Bureau of Reclamation

Installations. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1923.

Goldsmith, Edward, and Nicholas Hildyard. The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams. San

Francisco: Sierra Club, 1984.
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Golze, Alfred A. Reclamation in the United States. New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, Inc., 1952.

Gottlieb, Robert and Margaret FitzSimmons. Thirst for Growth: Water Agencies as Hidden Government in

California. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1991.

Graff, Thomas J. and David R. Yardis. “The Passage of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act, 1991-1992: 

Environmental Defense Fund Perspective.” Oral History interview by Malca Chall, 1996. Berkeley:

Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library, University of California.

Gressley, Gene M. “Arthur Powell Davis, Reclamation, and the West.” Agricultural History 42 (July 1968): 241-

57.

Hansen, Oskar J. W. Sculptures at Hoover Dam. Department of the Interior, USBR, U.S. Government Printing

Office, 1963.

Harden, Blaine. A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia. New York, London: W. W. Norton &

Company, 1996.

Harvey, Mark W. T. A Symbol of Wilderness: Echo Park and the American Conservation Movement. 

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.

Hess, Jeffrey A. “A Mile High in the Mountains: The Planning, Design, and Construction of Deadwood Dam.” 

Idaho Yesterdays 36 (Fall 1993): 2-17.

__________. “Inventions and Patents for the Public Good: The Needle-Valve Program of the Bureau of

Reclamation.” Journal of the Society For Industrial Archeology 22 (1996): 35-51.

Hirsh, Richard F. and Adam H. Serchuk. “Momentum Shifts in the American Electric Utility System: 

Catastrophic Change--or No Change at All?” Technology and Culture 37 (April 1996): 280-312.

Hoffman, Abraham. Vision or Villainy: Origins of the Owens Valley — Los Angeles Water Controversy. College

Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1981.

Horton, Gary A. Truckee River Chronology. A Chronological History of the Truckee River and Related Water

Issues. Nevada Water Basin Information and Chronology Series. State of Nevada, Department of

Conservation and Natural Resources, October 1995.

Houghton, Samuel G. A Trace of Desert Waters: The Great Basin Story. Reno: University of Nevada Press,

1976.

Hudson, Hugh H. The Missouri River Basin Development Program and the Water Resources Division, U.S.

Geological Survey, 1946-83. Denver: U.S. Geological Survey, 1992.

Hundley, Norris, Jr. “Water and the West in Historical Imagination.” Western Historical Quarterly 27 (Spring

1996): 5-31.

__________. “Clio Nods: Arizona v. California and the Boulder Canyon Act: A Reassessment.” Western

Historical Quarterly 3 (January 1972): 17-51.

__________. Dividing the Waters: A Century of Controversy between the United States and Mexico. Berkeley

and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1966.
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__________. “The Great American Desert Transformed: Aridity, Exploitation, and Imperialism in the Making of

the Modern American West.” In Water and Arid Lands of the Western United States, eds. M. T. El-Ashry

and Diana C. Gibbons, 21-83. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

__________. The Great Thirst: Californians and Water, 1770s-1990s. Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University

of California Press, 1992.

__________. “The Politics of Reclamation: California, the Federal Government, and the Origins of the Boulder

Canyon Act — A Second Look.” California Historical Quarterly 52 (Winter 1973): 292-325.

__________. Water and the West: The Colorado River Compact and the Politics of Water in the American West. 

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1975.

Idaho Yesterdays 30 (Spring/Summer 1986). This special issue of the journal is devoted to Idaho water history.

Institute for Government Research. The U.S. Reclamation Service: Its History, Activities, and Organization. New

York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1919.

Introcaso, David M. “The Politics of Technology: The ‘Unpleasant’ Truth About Pleasant Dam.” Western

Historical Quarterly 26 (Fall 1995): 333-355.

__________. “Water Storage and Hydroelectric Development in Central Arizona.” Ph.D. dissertation, Arizona

State University, 1995.

Jackson, Donald C. “Engineering in the Progressive Era: A New Look at Frederick Haynes Newell and the U. S.

Reclamation Service.” Technology and Culture 34 (July 1993): 539-74.

__________. “Three Dams in Central Arizona.” Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service,

1991.

__________. Building the Ultimate Dam: John S. Eastwood and the Control of Water in the West. Lawrence: 

University Press of Kansas, 1995.

Jacobsen, Judith Eva. “A Promise Made: The Navajo Indian Irrigation Project and Water Politics in the American

West.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Colorado, 1989.

James, George Wharton. Reclaiming the Arid West: The Story of the United States Reclamation Service. New

York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1917.

Johnson, G. Wesley, Jr., ed. Phoenix in the Twentieth Century: Essays in Community History. Norman:

University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.

Johnson, Rich. The Central Arizona Project, 1918-1968. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1977.

Jones, Chester W. “USBR Research on Water Conveyance Facilities, 1946-89.” Bureau of Reclamation, 1989.

Kahrl, William L. California Water Atlas. Sacramento: The Governor’s Office of Planning and Research and the

California Dept. Of Water Resources, 1979.

__________. Water and Power: The Conflict Over Los Angeles' Water Supply in the Owens Valley. Berkeley,

Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1982.

Kathka, David Arlin. “The Bureau of Reclamation in the Truman Administration: Personnel, Politics, and Policy.”

Ph.D. dissertation, University of Missouri, 1976.
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Kelley, Robert. Battling the Inland Sea: American Political Culture, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley,

1850-1986. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1989.

Kendrick, Gregory D., ed. Beyond the Wasatch: The History of Irrigation in the Uinta Basin and Upper Provo

River Area of Utah. With an introduction by Charles S. Peterson. Denver: National Park Service and

Bureau of Reclamation, 1988.

Kluger, James R. Turning Water on with a Shovel: The Career of Elwood Mead. Albuquerque: University of New

Mexico Press, 1992.

Kohler, Warren H. and James W. Ball, “High-Pressure Outlets, Gates, and Valves.” Chapter in Handbook of

Applied Hydraulics. Davis, Calvin Victor and Sorensen, Kenneth, eds. 3rd Edition. New York: McGraw

Hill Book Company, 1969.

Kollgaard, Eric B. and Wallace L. Chadwick. Development of Dam Engineering in the United States. New York: 

Pergamon Press, 1988.

La Mar, Bärbel Hannelore Schönfeld. “Water and Land in the Mesilla Valley, New Mexico: Reclamation and Its

Effects on Property Ownership and Agricultural Land Use.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oregon,

1984.

Lawson, Michael L. Dammed Indians: The Pick-Sloan Plan and the Missouri River Sioux, 1944-1980. Norman: 

University of Oklahoma Press, 1982.

Lovin, Hugh T. “A ‘New West’ Reclamation Tragedy: The Twin Falls Oakley Project in Idaho.” Arizona and the

West. Vol. 20 (Spring 1978), 5-24.

__________. “Footnote to History: ‘The Reservoir’ Would Not Hold Water’.” Idaho Yesterdays 24 (Spring 1990):

12-19.

__________. “Free Enterprise and Large-Scale Reclamation on the Twin Falls-North Side Tract, 1907-1930.” 

Idaho Yesterdays 29 (Spring 1985): 2-14.

__________. “How Not to Run a Carey Act Project: The Twin Falls-Salmon Falls Creek Tract, 1904-1922.” 

Idaho Yesterdays 30 (Fall 1986): 9-15.

__________. “The Farmer Revolt in Idaho, 1914-1922: Neo-Populist Eruptions on the Reclamation Projects of

South Idaho.” Idaho Yesterdays 20 (Fall 1976): 2-15.

__________. “The Farwell Trust Company of Chicago and Idaho Irrigation Finance.” Idaho Yesterdays 38

(Winter 1994): 7-17.

__________. “The Sunnyside Irrigation Debacle, 1907-1922.” Idaho Yesterdays 36 (Summer 1992): 24-33.

__________. “Water, Arid Land, and Visions of Advancement on the Snake River Plain.” Idaho Yesterdays 35

(Spring 1991): 3-18.

Luckingham, Bradford. Phoenix: The History of a Southwestern Metropolis. Tucson: The University of Arizona

Press, 1989.

Martin, Russell. A Story that Stands Like a Dam: Glen Canyon and the Struggle for the Soul of the West. New

York: Henry Holt and Company, 1989.
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McCool, Daniel. Command of the Waters: Iron Triangles, Federal Water Development, and Indian Water. 

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

McGuire, Thomas R., William B. Lord, and Mary G. Wallace. Indian Water in the New West. Tucson, London: 

University of Arizona Press, 1993.

McPhee, John. Encounters with the Archdruid. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1971.

Metz, Leon C. Border: The U.S.-Mexico Line. El Paso: Mangan Books, 1989.

Miller, M. Catherine. Flooding the Courtrooms: Law and Water in the Far West. Lincoln, London: University of

Nebraska Press, 1993.

Mitchell, Martin D.. “The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California: Initial Transformation into a Water Supply

and Conveyance Node, 1900-1955.” Journal of the West 25 (January 1996): 44-53.

Morgan, Robert M. Water and the Land: A History of American Irrigation. Fairfax, VA: The Irrigation

Association, 1993.

Mount, Jeffrey F. California Rivers and Streams: The Conflict Between Fluvial Process and Land Use. Berkeley,

Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1995.

Murray, Vernon. “Grand Coulee and Bonneville Power in the National War Effort.” Journal of Land and Public

Utility Economics 18 (May 1942): 134-139.

Naske, Claus M. “Hydroelectric Power for Eklutna.” The Northern Engineer 8 (1976): 24-27.

__________ and William R. Hunt, The Politics of Hydroelectric Power in Alaska: Rampart and Devil Canyon--A

Case Study. Fairbanks, Alaska: Institute of Water Resources, University of Alaska, 1978.

Nealand, Dan. An Administrative History: The Office of the Chief Engineer, Denver Headquarters Office of the

Bureau of Reclamation, 1915-1943. Denver: Unpublished, 1985.

Neil, J. Meredith. “A Forgotten Alternative: Reclamation by the States.” Idaho Yesterdays 9 (Winter 1965-66):

18-21.

Nelson, Barry. “The Passage of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act, 1991-1992: Executive Director, San

Francisco Bay Association.” Oral History interview by Malca Chall, 1994. Berkeley: Regional Oral

History Office, Bancroft Library, University of California.

Newll, R. J.. “40 Years of O&M.” Idaho Yesterdays 2 (Fall 1958): 2-7.

Norris, Jane E. and Lee G. Norris, Written in Water: The Life of Benjamin Harrison Eaton. Athens: Swallow

Press/Ohio University Press, 1990.

Ogden, Gerald R., compiler. The Excess Lands Provisions of Federal Reclamation Law: A Bibliography and

Chronology. Agricultural History Center, University of California, Davis, 1980.

Palmer, Tim. Endangered Rivers and the Conservation Movement. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of

California Press, 1986.

Peltier, Jason. “The Passage of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act, 1991-1992: Manager, Central Valley

Project Water Association.” Oral History interview by Malca Chall, 1994. Berkeley: Regional Oral

History Office, Bancroft Library, University of California.
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Pfaff, Christine. “Mae Schnurr: A Woman's Rise to Prominence.” Prologue 29 (Fall 1997): 233-242.

Pisani, Donald J. “Conflict Over Conservation: The Reclamation Service and the Tahoe Contract.” Western

Historical Quarterly 10 (April 1979): 167-190.

__________. “Federal Reclamation and Water Rights in Nevada.” Agricultural History 51 (July 1977): 540-58.

__________. “George Maxwell, the Railroads, and American Land Policy, 1899-1904.” Pacific Historical

Review 63 (May 1994): 177-202.

__________. “Forests and Reclamation, 1891-1911.” Forest and Conservation History 37 (April 1993): 68.

__________. From the Family Farm to Agribusiness: The Irrigation Crusade in California and the West, 1850-

1931. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1984.

__________. To Reclaim a Divided West: Water, Law, and Public Policy, 1848-1902. Albuquerque: University

of New Mexico Press, 1992.

__________. Water, Land, and Law in the West. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1996.

Pitt, Leonard. California Controversies: Major Issues in the History of the State. Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan

Davidson, Inc., 1987.

Pitzer, Paul C. “The Mystique of Grand Coulee Dam and the Reality of the Columbia Basin Project: Columbia

River History.” Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History 4 (1990): 28-34, 36-38.

__________. Grand Coulee: Harnessing a Dream. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1994.

Reed, Scott W. “Bureau of Reclamation: Reform or Revolution.” Casper, Wyoming: Platte River Strategy for the

‘90s, 1990.

Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water. New York: Viking, 1986;

reprint, New York: Penguin Books, 1993.

__________ and Bates, Sarah. Overtapped Oasis: Reform or Revolution for Western Waters. Washington, D.C.:

Island Press, 1990.

Reynolds, Terry S. “Dams and Hydroelectric Technology in the American West: A Different Model.” Journal of

the Society For Industrial Archeology 22 (1996): 5-11.

Rhodes, Benjamin D. “From Cooksville to Chungking: The Dam Designing Career of John L. Savage.” Wisconsin

Magazine of History 72 (Summer 1989): 243-72.

_________. “Designing the Hoover Dam: Civil Engineering, Politics, Public Service, and the Old Boy Network.”

Essays in Colorado History 51 (1989): 2-3.

Rice, Ross R. Carl Hayden: Builder of the American West. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America,

1994.

Robinson, Michael C. Water for the West: The Bureau of Reclamation, 1902-1977. Chicago: Public Works

Historical Society, 1979.

Rogge, A. E., et al. Raising Arizona’s Dams: Daily Life, Danger, and Discrimination in the Dam Construction

Camps of Central Arizona, 1890s-1940s. Tucson, London: University of Arizona Press, 1995.
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Rowley, William D. Reclaiming the Arid West: The Career of Francis G. Newlands. Bloomington, Indianapolis: 

Indiana University Press, 1996.

Sadler, Richard W. and Roberts, Richard C. The Weber River Basin: Grass Roots Democracy and Water

Development. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1994.

Salt River Project, Communications and Public Affairs Dept. The Taming of the Salt. Phoenix: Salt River Project,

1979.

Sauder, Robert A. The Lost Frontier: Water Diversion in the Growth and Destruction of Owens Valley

Agriculture. Tucson, London: University of Arizona Press, 1994.

Scarpino, Philip V. “The Saving the Salmon Project: A Review.” The Public Historian: A Journal of Public

History 17 (Fall 1995): 33-42.

Schnitter, Nicholas J. A History of Dams: The Useful Pyramids. Rotterdam, Netherlands: A. A. Balkema, 1994.

Schoonover, Larry. “Vanessa Helder and Grand Coulee Dam.” Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History 4

(1990): 34-35.

Scrugham, J. G. “Water Development and Its Storage in the State of Nevada.” Nevada Historical Society

Quarterly 37 (Fall 1994): 225-232.

Sheller, Roscoe. Courage and Water: A Story of Yakima Valley’s Sunnyside. Astoria, Oregon: S Dot S

Publishing, 1997.

Sherow, James E. Watering the Valley: Development Along the High Plains Arkansas River Valley, 1870-1950. 

Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1990.

Smith, Karen L. The Magnificent Experiment: Building the Salt River Reclamation Project, 1890-1917. Tucson: 

University of Arizona Press, 1986.

Smith, Thomas G. “John Kennedy, Stewart Udall, and New Frontier Conservation.” Pacific Historical Review 64

(August 1995): 329-362.

State of California, Resources Agency, Department of Water Resources. Carson River Atlas, December 1991.

Stegner, Wallace. Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West. 

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954.

Stein, Pat H. Homesteading in the Depression: A Study of Two Short-lived Homesteads in the Harquahala Valley,

Arizona. U.S. Dept of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Arizona Projects Office, 1988.

Stevens, Joseph E. Hoover Dam: An American Adventure. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.

Tamir, Orit, Russell, Scott C., Jensen, Karolyn Jackman and Lerner, Shereen. Return to Butte Camp: A JapaneseAmerican World War II Relocation Center. Bureau of Reclamation, Arizona Projects Office, 1993.

Terrell, John Upton. War for the Colorado River: The California-Arizona Controversy. Volume One. Glendale,

California: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1965.

__________, War for the Colorado River: Above Lee’s Ferry -- The Upper Basin. Volume Two. Glendale,

California: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1965.
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Tyler, Daniel. The Last Water Hole in the West: The Colorado-Big Thompson Project and the Northern Colorado

Water Conservancy District. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1992.

Udall, Stewart L. Interviews by Joe B. Frantz, 1969, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, Texas.

__________. Interview by W. W. Moss, January 12, 1970. Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy Library,

Cambridge, Massachusetts.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. A History of Federal Water Resources Programs,

1800-1960, Miscellaneous Publication No. 1233, by Beatrice Hort Holmes. Washington, DC: U.S.

Government Printing Office, 1972.

__________. A History of Federal Water Resources Programs, 1961-1970, Miscellaneous Publication No.1379,

by Beatrice Hort Holmes. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979.

U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation. Bureau of Reclamation Appropriation Acts and

Allotments: A Chronological Compilation of Allotments and Appropriations for the Bureau of

Reclamation. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1961.

__________. Federal Reclamation and Related Laws Annotated, Vol. I of IV, through 1942. ed. Richard K. Pelz. 

Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972.

__________. Federal Reclamation and Related Laws Annotated, Vol. II of IV, 1943-1958. ed. Richard K. Pelz. 

Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972.

__________. Federal Reclamation and Related Laws Annotated, Vol. III of IV, 1959-1966. ed. Richard K. Pelz. 

Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972.

__________. Federal Reclamation and Related Laws Annotated, Vol. IV of IV, 1967-1982. eds. Louis D. Mauro

and Richard K. Pelz. Denver: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989.

__________. Federal Reclamation and Related Laws Annotated, Reclamation Reform Act Compilation, 1982-

1988. ed. Paul B. Smyth. Denver: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988.

___________. Federal Reclamation and Related Laws Annotated, Supplement I, 1967-1982. eds. Louis D.

Mauro and Richard K. Pelz. Denver: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988.

_________. Studying Reclamation with Secretary Work and Doctor Mead: Being a Chronicle of a Journey into

the Dry and Sizzling West in Mid-Summer, 1925; To Diagnose the Ills of Federal Reclamation and Find

and Apply an Effective Remedy. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1926.

U.S. Department of Interior, Water and Power Resources Service. Project Data. Denver: U.S. Government

Printing Office, 1981.

Utley, Robert M. and Barry Mackintosh. The Department of Everything Else: Highlights of Interior History, 1988.

Wahl, Richard W. Markets for Federal Water: Subsidies, Property Rights, and the Bureau of Reclamation. 

Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, 1989.

Walton, John. Western Times and Western Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California. Berkeley, Los

Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, 1992.

Warne, William E. The Bureau of Reclamation. Boulder: Prager Publishers, Inc., 1973; reprint, Boulder:

Westview Press, 1985.
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Water Education Foundation. Symposium Proceedings, 75th Anniversary of the Colorado River Compact. 

Sacramento: Water Education Foundation, 1977.

Weatherford, Gary D. and F. Lee Brown. New Courses for the Colorado River: Major Issues for the Next Century. 

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986.

Welsh, Frank. How to Create a Water Crisis. Boulder, Colorado: Johnson Publishing Company, 1985.

White, Richard. The Organic Machine. New York: Hill and Wang, 1995.

Wilds, Leah J., Danny A. Gonzales, and Glen S. Krutz. “Reclamation and the Politics of Change: The TruckeeCarson-Pyramid Lake Water Rights Settlement Act of 1990.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 37

(Fall 1994): 173-200.

Wilkinson, Charles F. Crossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water, and the Future of the West. Washington, DC: 

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__________. The Eagle Bird: Mapping a New West. New York: Vintage Books, 1992.

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