Stephen D Bogener

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Ditches Across the Desert: Irrigation in the Lower Pecos ValleyPaperback, 30 September 2019

Ditches Across the Desert: Irrigation in the Lower Pecos Valley
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Print Length
340 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
Date Published
30 Sep 2019
ISBN-10
1682830292
ISBN-13
9781682830291

Description

This book illuminates the myriad personalities and interests that combined and clashed over the Pecos Valley reservoirs and canals. Many Americans, including western lawmakers, considered irrigation to be America at its best. Wealthy easterners invested in its development in the great traditions of American capitalism. Farmers laboring side by side to transform the desert into productive cropland represented the ideals of Jeffersonian yeoman democracy. These people, and the change of the Pecos Valley from rustic cattle territory to towns and irrigated farmland, form the framework for this rich story of the American West. Today the once formidable Pecos River has become a mere shadow of its former self. Dammed in many places for irrigation, its springs pumped dry in others, the Pecos leads a precarious existence. Yet the contest over its water--within New Mexico and between New Mexico and Texas through the Pecos River Compact--continues.

Product Details

Author:
Stephen D Bogener
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
30 September 2019
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.24 x 2.01 cm
ISBN-10:
1682830292
ISBN-13:
9781682830291
Language:
English
Location:
Lubbock, TX
Pages:
340
Weight:
517.09 gm

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