Water in the West
By: J.B. Smallwood, Jr., editor-in-chief.
Contributors: Smallwood, J. B.
Publisher: Sunflower University Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Manhattan, Kan., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
Subjects: Water resources development -- West (U.S.); Irrigation engineering -- West (U.S.); West (U.S.) -- History.
Other titles: Journal of the West.
Description: "April 1983 issue of Journal of the West with one additional article."
Notes: "April 1983 issue of Journal of the West with one additional article."
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Historical perspectives on the western environment : a selective bibliography of recent writings / J.B. Smallwood, Jr.; title: The origins of reclamation in the arid West : William Ralston's canal and the federal irrigation commission of 1873 / Don Pisani; title: The ditch irrigation boom in southwest Kansas : changing an environment / James E. Tomayko; title: Irrigation in western Kansas; title: the 1950's / Oscar Norby and Robin Higham; title: Did he or didn't he? Fred Eaton's role in the Owens Valley-Los Angeles water controversy / Abraham Hoffman; title: L'affaire LaRue / W.B. Langbein; title: Trees, the Plains, and water management / Glen A. Marotz; title: "The new school of thought" : reclamation and the Fair Deal, 1945-1953 / Charles Coate; title: The day the well went dry / James A. Kitchens; title: Pioneer farmers of the Staked Plain : the Quakers of Estacado / William B. Conroy.