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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation |
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Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Irrigation |
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Author | : United States. National Resources Planning Board |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1942 |
Genre | : Pecos River |
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Author | : Michael A. Nash |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Archaeological surveying |
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Author | : Patrick Dearen |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2016-03-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806154608 |
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Rising at 11,750 feet in the Sangre de Cristo range and snaking 926 miles through New Mexico and Texas to the Rio Grande, the Pecos River is one of the most storied waterways in the American West. It is also one of the most troubled. In 1942, the National Resources Planning Board observed that the Pecos River basin “probably presents a greater aggregation of problems associated with land and water use than any other irrigated basin in the Western U.S.” In the twenty-first century, the river’s problems have only multiplied. Bitter Waters, the first book-length study of the entire Pecos, traces the river’s environmental history from the arrival of the first Europeans in the sixteenth century to today. Running clear at its source and turning salty in its middle reach, the Pecos River has served as both a magnet of veneration and an object of scorn. Patrick Dearen, who has written about the Pecos since the 1980s, draws on more than 150 interviews and a wealth of primary sources to trace the river’s natural evolution and man’s interaction with it. Irrigation projects, dams, invasive saltcedar, forest proliferation, fires, floods, flow decline, usage conflicts, water quality deterioration—Dearen offers a thorough and clearly written account of what each factor has meant to the river and its prospects. As fine-grained in detail as it is sweeping in breadth, the picture Bitter Waters presents is sobering but not without hope, as it also extends to potential solutions to the Pecos River’s problems and the current efforts to undo decades of damage. Combining the research skills of an accomplished historian, the investigative techniques of a veteran journalist, and the engaging style of an award-winning novelist, this powerful and accessible work of environmental history may well mark a turning point in the Pecos’s fortunes.
Author | : United States. National Resources Planning Board |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 1942 |
Genre | : Pecos River |
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Author | : James W. Karbula |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Archaeological surveying |
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Author | : Patrick Dearen |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2012-09-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0875655610 |
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The Pecos River flows snake-like out of New Mexico and across West Texas before striking the Rio Grande. In frontier Texas, the Pecos was more moat than river—a deadly barrier of quicksand, treacherous currents, and impossibly steep banks. Only at its crossings, with legendary names such as Horsehead and Pontoon, could travelers hope to gain passage. Even if the river proved obliging, Indian raiders and outlaws often did not. Long after irrigation and dams rendered the river a polluted trickle, Patrick Dearen went seeking out the crossings and the stories behind them. In Crossing Rio Pecos—a follow-up to his Castle Gap and the Pecos Frontier—he draws upon years of research to relate the history and folklore of all the crossings—Horsehead, Pontoon, Pope’s, Emigrant, Salt, Spanish Dam, Adobe, “S,” and Lancaster. Meticulously documented, Crossing Rio Pecos emerges as the definitive study of these gateways which were so vital to the opening of the western frontier.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Pecos River |
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Author | : Patrick Dearen |
Publisher | : TCU Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780875651590 |
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The mythic Old West - the war cry of the Indian, the blast of the cowboy's six-shooter, the crack of the stage-driver's whip, the thunder of the stampeding longhorn. While documented history was painting dreary lives for pioneers in many other locations, the Pecos stirred with color and drama and nurtured the stuff of legend. Long after irrigation and dams rendered the river a polluted trickle, Patrick Dearen went seeking out the crossings and the stories behind them. In.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Flood control |
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