James E. Sherow

Watering the Valley (eBook, ePUB)

Development along the High Plains Arkansas River, 1870-1950

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

James Earl Sherow contends that a vast network of problems in the arid West has sprung from the mistaken notion that water is a commodity to be bought, sold, and traded. This ill-conceived approach to water development, he argues, has resulted in social problems as well as abuse of the environment. In this volume he tells the story of the inhabitants of the Valley of Content, the High Plains section of the Arkansas River Valley, during the formative period of settlement and development. It was their desire for growth, he maintains, that spurred the construction of the very dams, reservoirs, and water conveyance structures that would ultimately undermine their success. He documents their attemptsboth fanciful and fruitfulto bring the river under their control, the waves of new problems that followed each new 'solution,' and the conflict and cooperation the process engendered.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Kansas
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 1991
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780700639083
• Artikelnr.: 75674554

Autorenporträt

James E. Sherow is emeritus Distinguished Professor of environmental and the American West at Kansas State University. He has also worked as a private consultant on historical water issues. He is editor of A Sense of the American West: An Anthology of Environmental History and author ofThe Grasslands of the United States: An Environmental History.