Search results for ""Author Norris Hundley""
University of California Press The Great Thirst
Tells how aboriginal Americans and then early Spanish and Mexican immigrants contrived to use and share the available water and how American settlers, arriving in ever-increasing numbers after the Gold Rush, transformed California into the home of the nation's preeminent water seekers.
£27.76
University of California Press Water and the West: The Colorado River Compact and the Politics of Water in the American West
Back in print for the first time in over ten years, this classic account of the numerous struggles - national, state, and local - that have occurred over western American water rights since the late 1800s is thoroughly expanded and updated to trace the continuing battles raging over the West's most valuable, and contentious, resource.
£25.45