Description: Water has always been one of the American West’s most precious and limited resources. The earliest inhabitants—Native Americans and later Hispanics—learned to share the region’s scant rainfall and snowmelt. When Euro-Americans arrived in the middle of the nineteenth century, they brought with them not only an interest in large-scale commercial agriculture but also new practices and laws about access to, and control of, the water essential for their survival and success. This included the concept of private rights to water, a critical resource that had previously been regarded as a communal asset.
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Book Title: Water and Agriculture in Colorado and the American West
Signed: No
Book Series: University of Nevada Press
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Original Language: English
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Inscribed: No
Edition: First Edition
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Novel
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Author: David Stiller
Personalized: No
Features: Chapters, Softcover
Genre: Geography, History
Topic: Agriculture, Regional History, American West, Water conservation, Travel, Colorado River, Drought, Regional, Geography, Rio Grande
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
