Silver fox of the Rockies
Subtitle: Delphus E. Carpenter and western water compacts
By: Daniel Tyler ; foreword by Donald J. Pisani.
Contributors: Carpenter, Delph.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: Carpenter, Delph.; Lawyers -- Colorado -- Biography.; Water rights -- United States -- States -- History.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Delphus E. Carpenter (1877-1951) was Colorado's commissioner of interstate streams during a time when water rights were a legal battleground for western states. A complex, unassuming man as rare and cunning in politics and law as the elusive silver fox of the Rocky Mountain West, Carpenter boldly relied on negotiation instead of endless litigation to forge agreements among states first, before federal intervention. In Silver Fox of the Rockies, Daniel Tyler tells Carpenter's story and that of the great interstate water compacts he helped create. Those compacts, produced in the early twentieth century, have guided not only agricultural use of the water but urban growth and development throughout much of the American West to this day."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-373) and index.