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.
A River No More The Colorado River and the West, Expanded and Updated edition
About the Book
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