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Carey McWilliams’s California: The Great Exception has to be considered required reading for anyone seriously interested in how California came to be the state and culture that it is. In fiction, James M. Cain may have captured southern California best, especially in Mildred Pierce; his essay “Paradise” is singular.
Important interviews for this chapter: Horace Albright, Jack Burby, Dorothy Green, David Kennedy, William Warne, Samuel P. Hays, and William Kahrl.
BOOKS
Bain, Joe S., et al. Northern California’s Water Industry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1966.
Beck, Warren A., and David A. Williams. California: A History of the Golden State. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1972.
Bonelli, William G. Billion Dollar Blackjack. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Civic Research Press, 1954.
Carr, Harry. Los Angeles: City of Dreams. New York: Appleton-Century, 1935.
Chalfant, Willie Arthur. The Story of Inyo. Privately printed. Chicago,1922.
Cooper, Erwin. Aqueduct Empire. Glendale, Calif.: Arthur H. Clark, 1968.
Dunne, John Gregory. “A Celebration of California.” In Jonathan Eisen and David Fine, eds., Unknown California. New York: Macmillan, 1985.
Fogelson, Robert M. The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles 1850—1930. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1967.
Gottlieb, Robert, and Irene Wolt. Thinking Big: The Story of the Los Angeles Times, Its Publishers, and Their Influence on Southern California. New York: Putnam, 1977.
Halberstam, David. The Powers That Be. New York: Knopf, 1979.
Hays, Samuel P. Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency. New York: Atheneum, 1975.
Jorgenson, Lawrence C. The San Fernando Valley, Past and Present. Los Angeles: Pacific Rim Research, 1982.
Kahrl, William. Water and Power. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.
Kahrl, William, ed. The California Water Atlas. Sacramento: Department of Water Resources, 1979.
Keffer, Frank. History of the San Fernando Valley. Glendale, Calif.: Still-man, 1982.
Longstreet, Stephen. All Star Cast: An Anecdotal History of Los Angeles. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1977.
McWilliams, Carey. California: The Great Exception. Santa Barbara: Peregrine Smith, 1949, 1976.
Matson, Robert W. William Mulholland: A Forgotten Forefather. Stockton, Calif.: University of the Pacific, Pacific Center for Western Studies, 1976.
Nadeau, Remy. The Water Seekers. Santa Barbara: Peregrine Smith, 1974.
Outland, Charles F. Man-made Disaster: The Story of Saint Francis Dam. Glendale, Calif.: Arthur H. Clark, 1963, 1977.
Watkins, T. H. California: An Illustrated History. Palo Alto: American West Publishing, 1973.
ARTICLES
Amaral, Anthony. “A Struggle in the Owens Valley.” American Forests, August 1964.
Hayden, Frederick. “Los Angeles Aqueduct.” Building and Engineering News, August 15, 1915.
Hoffman, Abraham. “Joseph B. Lippincott and the Owens Valley Controversy: Time for Revision.” Southern California Quarterly, Fall 1972.
• . “Origins of a Controversy: The United States Reclamation Service and the Owens Valley—Los Angeles Water Dispute.” Arizona and the West, Winter 1977.
Lippincott, Joseph B. “William Mulholland: Engineer, Pioneer, Raconteur.” Civil Engineering, February/March 1941.
Los Angeles Times, 1898—1928. (Author’s note: So many issues of the newspaper were reviewed for this chapter that it seems pointless to list them all here. Most of the citations in the chapter are dated. The newspaper is well indexed for anyone who wishes to review its coverage of the water issue during the period.)
“Mulholland Retires after 50-Year Service at Los Angeles.” Engineering News-Record, November 22, 1928.
Wood, R. Coke. “Owens Valley as I Knew It.” Pacific Historian, Summer 1972.
Yonay, Ehud. “How Green Was My Valley.” New West, March 28, 1977.
CHAPTER THREE: First Causes
The chronicle of the political events leading to the passage of the Reclamation