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Author | : Lora-Marie Bernard |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1467132241 |
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"Communities have spent more than 100 years mastering the mighty Brazos River and its waterways. In the 1800s, Stephen F. Austin chose the Brazos River as the site for the first Texas colony because of its vast water and fertile soil. Within 75 years, a pumping station would herald the way for crop management. A sugar mill that was eventually known as Imperial Sugar spurred community development. In 1903, John Miles Frost Jr. tapped the Brazos to expand the Cane and Rice Belt Irrigation System while Houston newspapers predicted the infrastructure marvel would change the region's future--and it did. Within a few decades, the Texas agricultural empire caused Louisiana to dub Texas farmers 'the sugar and rice aristocracy.' As the dawn of the industrial age began, the Brazos River and its waterways began supplying the Texas Gulf Coast industry"--Publisher description.
Author | : Kenna Lang Archer |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2015-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826355889 |
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Running more than 1,200 miles from headwaters in eastern New Mexico through the middle of Texas to the Gulf of Mexico, the Brazos River has frustrated developers for nearly two centuries. This environmental history of the Brazos traces the techniques that engineers and politicians have repeatedly used to try to manage its flow. The vast majority of projects proposed or constructed in this watershed were failures, undone by the geology of the river as much as the cost of improvement. When developers erected locks, the river changed course. When they built large-scale dams, floodwaters overflowed the concrete rims. When they constructed levees, the soils collapsed. Yet lawmakers and laypeople, boosters and engineers continued to work toward improving the river and harnessing it for various uses. Through the plight of the Brazos River Archer illuminates the broader commentary on the efforts to tame this nation’s rivers as well as its historical perspectives on development and technology. The struggle to overcome nature, Archer notes, reflects a quintessentially American faith in technology.
Author | : Cyril S. Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Water-supply |
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Author | : Lower Brazos River Water Users' Committee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1956* |
Genre | : Brazos River (Tex.) |
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Author | : Eddie Maurice Dry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1975 |
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Total Pages | : 1104 |
Release | : 1929 |
Genre | : Water quality |
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Author | : United States. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Petroleum products |
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Author | : United States. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Environmental impact analysis |
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Author | : United States. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Office |
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Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Petroleum products |
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Author | : United States. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Office |
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Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Petroleum products |
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