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Turning on Water with a Shovel
Elwood Mead (1858-1936), an engineer who pioneered western water law and development, worked tirelessly for over fifty years to ensure that water went to its best use. Ever the idealist, Mead consistently held to his nineteenth-century view of agrarian life based on the individual farmer living on a small, irrigated plot. This account of Mead's public life describes his key role in creating water policy and overseeing reclamation projects. His career spanned the history of irrigation from the first corporate ditch enterprises in Colorado in the 1880s through the construction of Hoover Dam a half-century later. In all his endeavors, whether serving as state engineer in Wyoming, investigating irrigation use for the Department of Agriculture, developing model rural communities in Australia and California, of administering the Bureau of Reclamation, Mead always sought to give the benefits of water to small farmers and average citizens. One of Mead's greatest achievements - the construction of Hoover Dam - was completed just as he died, and Lake Mead is named for him.
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The Bureau of Reclamation: Origins and growth to 1945
On cover: Reclamation, Managing Water in the West. Tells the history of the Bureau of Reclamation from 1902-1945.
Squatter's Republic
Who should have the right to own land, and how much of it? A Squatter's Republic follows the rise and fall of the land question in the Gilded AgeÑand the rise and fall of a particularly nineteenth-century vision of landed independence. More specifically, the author considers the land question through the anti-monopolist reform movements it inspired in late nineteenth-century California. The Golden State was a squatter's republicÑa society of white men who claimed no more land than they could use, and who promised to uphold agrarian republican ideals and resist monopoly, the nemesis of democracy. Their opposition to land monopoly became entwined with public discourse on Mexican land rights, industrial labor relations, immigration from China, and the rise of railroad and other corporate monopolies.
Reclamation Era
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Engineering Nature
Focusing on globalization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jessica Teisch examines the processes by which American water and mining engineers who rose to prominence during and after the California Gold Rush of 1849 exported the United
