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The Yuma Reclamation Project: Irrigation, Indian Allotment, and Settlement Along the Lower Colorado River
Robert A Sauder
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Description for The Yuma Reclamation Project: Irrigation, Indian Allotment, and Settlement Along the Lower Colorado River
Hardcover. Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; HBTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
In the arid American West, settlement was generally contingent on the availability of water to irrigate crops and maintain livestock and human residents. Early irrigation projects were usually the cooperative efforts of pioneer farmers, but by the early twentieth century they largely reflected federal intentions to create new farms out of the western public domain. The Yuma Reclamation Project, authorized in 1904, was one of the earliest federal irrigation projects initiated in the western United States and the first authorized on the Colorado River. Its story exemplifies the range of difficulties associated with settling the nationÆs final frontier—the remaining irrigable ... Read more
In the arid American West, settlement was generally contingent on the availability of water to irrigate crops and maintain livestock and human residents. Early irrigation projects were usually the cooperative efforts of pioneer farmers, but by the early twentieth century they largely reflected federal intentions to create new farms out of the western public domain. The Yuma Reclamation Project, authorized in 1904, was one of the earliest federal irrigation projects initiated in the western United States and the first authorized on the Colorado River. Its story exemplifies the range of difficulties associated with settling the nationÆs final frontier—the remaining irrigable ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Reno, United States
ISBN
9780874177831
SKU
V9780874177831
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99-15
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