To reclaim a divided west : water, law, and public policy, 1848-1902 / Donald J. Pisani.
1992
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Title
To reclaim a divided west : water, law, and public policy, 1848-1902 / Donald J. Pisani.
Published
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1992.
Call Number
HD1695.A17 P57 1992
ISBN
0826313809
Description
xx, 487 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plate : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)25710852
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-475) and index.
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Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
1
Introduction: Government and Public Policy in the Nineteenth Century
1
2
The Legal Context, 1848-66: Water for Sale
11
3
The Legal Context, 1866-1902: Localism and Reform
33
The Tyranny of Prior Appropriation
33
The Legacy of Mexican Law and Community Irrigation Systems
38
The Common Law Inheritance
46
Leaders in Reform: California, Colorado, and Wyoming
52
The Specter of Federal Authority
64
4
Private Enterprise
69
Irrigation: The Financial Justification
70
Colonization
77
The Corporation
85
Alternatives to "Free" Enterprise: Rate Regulation, Mutual Companies, and Irrigation Districts
98
The Significance of Private Development
104
5
Retreat from Nationalism
127
Irrigation in Congress During the 1870s
127
George Davidson, Nationalist
133
The Crisis of the 1880s
138
John Wesley Powell and the Irrigation Survey
143
Science Divided
153
Conclusion
163
6
The Triumph of Sectionalism: State Enterprise in California, Nevada, and Colorado
169
Federalism, Mercantilism, and the American West
169
California
174
Nevada
183
Colorado
208
Conclusion
222
7
Wyoming, Land Cession, and the "Terrible Nineties"
225
Troubled Wyoming
225
Land Cession Through 1891
230
The Populist Backlash
240
The Carey Act
251
Aftermath
265
8
The Reclamation Act of 1902
273
Rivers and Harbors
273
George Maxwell, James J. Hill, and the Ideology of Reclamation
285
Irrigation and the Western Livestock Industry
294
The Reclamation Bill and Its Friends and Critics
298
Conclusion
319
9
Conclusion: The Fragmented West
327
Notes
337
Bibliography
435
Index
477