A River No More: The Colorado River and the West / Edition 1

by Philip L. Fradkin

Overview

Here is the definitive history of the development of the Colorado River and the claims made on its waters, from its source in the Wyoming Rockies to the California and Arizona borders where, so saline it kills plants, it peters out just short of the Gulf of California. Ever increasing demands on the river to supply cities in the desert render this new edition all too timely. Philip Fradkin has updated this valuable book with a new preface.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520205642
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	09/30/1996
Edition description:	First Edition, Expanded and Updated edition
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Philip L. Fradkin is an environmental historian, the author of six acclaimed books on the American West, most recently The Seven States of California (1995). His book Fallout was nominated for both a Pultizer and a Bancroft Prize.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

ONE
Watershed: A Separate Totality

TWO
Beginnings: Four Streams in Search of a River

THREE
High Country: Of Cows and Coal

FOUR
Separate Nations: Of Mormons and Indians

FIVE
Canyon Country: The Ultimate Ditch

SIX
Deserts: The Politics of Water

SEVEN
Ends: Death in the Desert

Selected Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"[A] detailed history of Western water policy, water rights and water wars. Not limiting himself to the local, regional and national implications of the self-serving Western water allocation processes, he discusses international ramifications, including Mexico's threat to take the United States to the World Court over the almost poisonous salinity of the Colorado River as it leaves the U.S. This eye for detail, coupled with an extensive bibliography for each chapter, makes A River No More an extremely valuable source book."—Western Wildlands"Well documented, and eminently readable."—Books of The Southwest"The book offers background on the hard decisions legislators and voters will have to make about the Colorado in decades to come."—Sunset

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