From Fire to Flood: Historic Human Destruction of Sonoran Desert Riverine Oases
Creators: name: Dobyns, Henry F.
Publisher: name: Ballena Press
Year: 1981
Subjects: subject: Mojave Valley
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subject: Hassayampa Creek
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subject: Sonoran Desert
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subject: Colorado River
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subject: Gila River
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subject: San Francisco River
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subject: San Pedro River
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subject: New Mexico (State / Territory)
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subject: California (State / Territory)
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subject: Arizona (State / Territory)
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subject: Historic
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subject: 19th Century
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subject: Historic Native American
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subject: Historic
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subject: Euroamerican
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subject: Structure
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subject: Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features
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subject: Historic Structure
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subject: Agricultural or Herding
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subject: Non-Domestic Structures
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subject: Water Control Feature
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subject: Commercial or Industrial Structures
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subject: Mill
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subject: Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
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subject: Settlements
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subject: Encampment
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subject: Mine
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subject: Road, Trail, and Related Structures or Features
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subject: Railroad
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subject: Road
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subject: Trail
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subject: Environment Research
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subject: Ethnohistoric Research
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subject: Historic Background Research
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subject: Records Search / Inventory Checking
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description: This book has been written intentionally to attempt to correct the disnoetic behavior of scientists who previously analyzed historic erosion and related changes in the Sonoran Desert environment. For scientists, no less than historians, have been quite unduly disnoetic; that is, all too many have proved to be incapable of knowing what they see (Morgan 1966:31). The chapters which follow this introduction deal with such variables as those already briefly mentioned, plus a number of others. Each chapter attempts to place significant environmental events in one sector of the Sonoran Desert in temporal and casual perspective. This volume emphasizes several relationships between Indoamerican tribal peoples and their desert environment. For that reason, and because the author earned academic degrees in anthropology, some readers will consider this book to be anthropology. Certainly it is not that class of ethnology characterized by reluctance to rely upon documentation produced and preserved by participants in a different culture (Morgan 1966:92). In as much as the chapters which follow discuss matters ecological, some readers will label this effort as "ecological anthropology."