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.

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.

"Philip Fradkin's purpose in writing this fascinating book is to widen the debate over the use of the Colorado beyond the interbred specialists and politicians who have transformed the modern west into a Boom Belt with little regard for the finitude of water."—Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post Book World

"A River No More makes a statement of the utmost importance and gravity. Though it focuses on the Colorado River and its tributaries, the book's implications reach from the high plains of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico to the Pacific littoral; from federal land and water policies to the survival strategies of the ranches, farms, country towns, and small regional capitals that constitute the west's only permanent and renewable way of life."—Wallace Stegner, The New Republic

"The most comprehensive book we have had or are ever likely to have on the Colorado River–a portrait with a message."—T. H. Watkins, San Francisco Chronicle Review

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