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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 1216
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Author: Ralph Murphy
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 4
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anna Lorraine Guthrie
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 1466
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn author subject index to selected general interest periodicals of reference value in libraries.
Author: Norris Hundley (Jr.)
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780520260108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBack in print for the first time in over ten years, this classic account of the numerous struggles--national, state, and local--that have occurred over western American water rights since the late 1800s is thoroughly expanded and updated to trace the continuing battles raging over the West's most valuable, and contentious, resource.
Author: Jack L. August
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2007-09-01
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0875654649
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Scopes Monkey Trial, the Sacco and Vanzetti case, Brown v the Board of Education, and even subsequent televised high profile murder trials pale in comparison to Arizona v California, argues author Jack August in Dividing Western Waters, August’s look at Arizona’s Herculean legal and political battle for an equitable share of the Colorado River. To this day Arizona v California is still influential. By the time Mark Wilmer settled in the Salt River Valley in the early 1930s, he realized that four basic commodities made possible civilization in the arid West: land, air, sunshine, and water. For Arizona, the seminal water case, Arizona v California, the longest Supreme Court case in American history (1952–1963), constituted an important step in the construction of the Central Arizona Project (CAP), a plan crucial for the development of Arizona’s economic livelihood. The unique qualities of water framed Wilmer’s role in the history of the arid Southwest and defined his towering professional career. Wilmer’s analysis of the Supreme Court case caused him to change legal tactics and, in so doing, he changed the course of the history of the American West.
Author: Library of Congress. Division of Bibliography
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 34
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Daniel Tyler
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780806135151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDelphus 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 but urban growth and development throughout much of the American West to this day. In Carpenter’s time, most western states relied on the doctrine of prior appropriation--first in time, first in right--which granted exclusive use of resources to those who claimed them first, regardless of common needs. Carpenter feared that population growth and rapid agricultural development in states sharing the same river basins would rob Colorado of its right to a fair share of water. To avoid that eventuality, Carpenter invoked the compact clause of the U.S. Constitution, a clause previously used to settle boundary disputes, and applied it to interstate water rights. The result was a mechanism by which complex issues involving interstate water rights could be settled through negotiation without litigating them before the U.S. Supreme Court. Carpenter believed in the preservation of states rights in order to preserve the constitutionally mandated balance between state and federal authority. Today, water remains critically important to the American West, and the great interstate water compacts Carpenter helped engineer constitute his most enduring legacy. Of particular significance is the Colorado River Compact of 1922, without which Hoover Dam could never have been built.
Author: Jack L. August (Jr.)
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTells how Mark Wilmer, an Arizona lawyer, fashioned the successful arguments that won the Supreme Court case securing Arizona's allottment of Colorado River water.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Lands
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Published: 1949
Total Pages: 1402
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jack L. August (Jr.)
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 314
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet in both the arid lands of Arizona and the political backdrop of Washington, D.C., Vision in the Desert documents the life and career of longtime Arizona senator, Carl Hayden. One of the most powerful figures in the United States Congress, Hayden's public service career, centered on water and its distribution, is inseparable from the history of the West and the development of arid lands.