Commercial irrigation enterprise, the fear of water monopoly, and the genesis of market distortion in the nineteenth century American West
By: Richard Moss Alston.
Series: Dissertations in American economic history
Publisher: Arno Press
Published: 1978
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Water resources development -- West (U.S.) -- History.; Irrigation -- West (U.S.) -- History.; Water rights -- West (U.S.) -- History.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 227-239.
Originally presented as the author's thesis, Cornell University, 1970.