Ditches across the desert : irrigation in the lower Pecos Valley /

Ditches across the desert : irrigation in the lower Pecos Valley /

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Author / Creator:	Bogener, Steve.
Imprint:	Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, ©2003.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 340 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	Irrigation -- Pecos River Valley (N.M. and Tex.) -- History. Irrigation. United States -- Pecos River Valley. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11142903

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ISBN:	1423762800 9781423762805 089672509X 9780896725096 9786611093198 6611093192
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-328) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Other form:	Print version: Bogener, Steve. Ditches across the desert. Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, ©2003 089672509X

Table of Contents:

Visions of an irrigation empire
Creosote and sagebrush
Jackrabbits, canals, and cottonwoods
Dams and violence in the Pecos Valley
Companies, canals, and capital
Railroads and receivership
Private irrigation drowns in ditches of its own making
Mr. Wrecklamation man
Such of the lands economically practicable to irrigate
God pity the water user?
An elusive reservoir.