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Damming the Colorado
by Adams Jr., John A
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0890969868
- ISBN 13
- 9780890969861
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About This Item
College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press. Fine. 1990. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 161 pages. Before there was a Lower Colorado River Authority, the Colorado River cut across Central Texas free and unfettered by artificial structures. But the river could be unpredictable and dangerous. In the early years of the twentieth century there were numerous attempts to harness and develop the river. Some Texans desperately wanted private enterprise to achieve that goal, but the job proved to be larger than the resources of the private sector. What emerged in the mid-1930s was a cooperative federal-state approach that created controversy yet results. John Adams details the dynamics in the struggle of private interests and public institutions to cooperate in the taming of the Colorado. The Great Depression further constricted private capital available for large-scale reclamation projects, but the New Deal entered into the effort. With seasoned Texas politicians in Washington, millions of dollars in federal funds were channeled into the Lower Colorado River Authority. The Lower Colorado River Authority resulted in a system of dams, reservoirs, and hydroelectric power stations. Intensive research in primary documents, including four sets of presidential papers, and in state and national archives has enabled Adams to trace the development of the accord and relationships between private utility interests, conservationists, and politicians that finally dammed the Colorado and further cemented the precedent for federally funded water and reclamation projects in the West. .
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- Title
- Damming the Colorado
- Author
- Adams Jr., John A
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0890969868
- ISBN 13
- 9780890969861
- Publisher
- Texas A & M University Press
- Place of Publication
- College Station, TX
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- HISTORY, UNITED STATES, STATE LOCAL, SOUTHWEST
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