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deBuys, William and Myers, Joan
by Salt Dreams: Land & Water in Low-Down California
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Albuquerque. 1999. University Of New Mexico Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0826321267. Photographs by Joan Myers. 407 pages. hardcover. . keywords: California Water History Salton Sea. FROM THE PUBLISHER - IIn low places consequences collect, and in all North America you cannot get much lower than the Imperial Valley of southern California, where one town, 186 feet below sea level, calls itself the Lowest Down City in the Western Hemisphere, and where the waters of the Colorado River sustain a billion-dollar agricultural industry. The consequences of that industry drain from the valley into the accidentally man-made Salton Sea, California's largest lake and a vital stopping place for migratory waterfowl. Today the Salton Sea is in desperate environmental trouble. A second river also ends in the Salton Sea. It is a river of dreams, the remains of which may be seen in the failed real estate developments that sprawl beside the sea. As the ending point of both the real Colorado and this river of dreams, the Salton Sea has become emblematic of much of the history of the American West. Its troubling story is masterfully told here in William deBuys's narrative and Joan Myers's austerely beautiful photographs. The story of Southern California is fundamentally a story about the control of nature. Beginning with the Yuman-speaking tribes encountered by the Spanish in the sixteenth century, deBuys traces the subsequent exploration and development of the region through the Gold Rush of 1849, the government-sponsored surveys that followed, and the inept tinkering with the river by an assortment of irrigation and development interests that resulted in the floods that formed the Salton Sea nearly a century ago. He introduces us to a gallery of rogues and dreamers who saw a great future for this arid wilderness but could never refrain from interference with the forces of nature. inventory #28030 ISBN: 0826321267.
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- Title
- deBuys, William and Myers, Joan
- Author
- Salt Dreams: Land & Water in Low-Down California
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0826321267
- ISBN 13
- 9780826321268
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press
- Place of Publication
- Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- October 1, 1999
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