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Hilliard, E. H. Open Letter to Wayne Aspinall, May 1966.
Hogan, Harry. Handwritten memo from associate solicitor, Department of the Interior, to “Floyd,” “Columbia River Compact Will Block Diversion of Col. R. Water to the Southwest,” February 20, 1964.
Jensen, Joseph. Letter to Stewart Udall, December 31, 1964.
Jukes, Thomas H. Letter to George Marshall, President, Sierra Club, September 2, 1966 (and several others by same author).
Kuchel, Thomas. Remarks on Senate floor, “Protecting the Present Users of Lower Colorado River Water,” Congressional Record, April 25, 1964.
McCasland, Stanford P. Letter to Philip Dickenson, August 10, 1972.
Manatos, Mike. Memorandum to Lawrence O’Brien, The White House, May 11, 1964.
Mitchell, A. L. Memorandum to Chief Engineer, Bureau of Reclamation, “Attendance at meeting on the Colorado River sponsored by the Colorado Mountain Club and the Sierra Club—Phipps Auditorium, March 22, 1966,” March 28, 1966.
Palmer, William. Memorandum to Commissioner of Reclamation, “Water resource development in the Lower Colorado River Basin,” August 3, 1962.
Peterson, Ottis. Blue envelope letter to Commissioner Floyd Dominy, March 29, 1964.
Pugh, C. A. Blue envelope letter to Commissioner Dominy, “Reply to Aspinall letter to Colorado River Basin Governors regarding Central Arizona Project water supply,” June 3, 1965.
—. Blue envelope memorandum to Regional Director, Bureau of Reclamation, “Report on debate with Mr. David Brower of the Sierra Club relative to Bridge Canyon and Marble Canyon Dams, February 10, 1965,” March 20, 1965.
Riggins, Ted. Memorandum to F. Dominy, G. Stamm, N. B. Bennett, “Status Report: Central Arizona Project legislation,” October 5, 1967.
Riter, J. R. Memorandum to Chief Engineer, Bureau of Reclamation, “Special Meeting of Colorado Water Conservation Board,” August 18, 1965.
Robins, J. W. Memorandum to Project Manager, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Grand Junction, Colorado, “Colorado Water Conservation Board meetings of September 7 and 8, 1967,” September 13, 1967.
Rorke, H. B. Note to Ottis Peterson, Director of Public Information, Bureau of Reclamation, “IntRevService clamp on the Sierra Club,” June 21, 1966.
Schultz, Charles. Memorandum to President Lyndon Johnson, “1968 new construction starts for the Corps of Engineers,” December 31, 1966.
Straus, Michael. Letter to William Warne, December 30, 1952.
Udall, Stewart. Memorandum to President Lyndon Johnson, “Senator Hayden and the Lower Colorado Project,” August 9, 1967.
Warne, William E. Letter to Harry Bashore, November 12, 1963.
—. Letter to Senator Carl Hayden, March 4, 1964.
West, Arleigh. Blue envelope letter to Commissioner of Reclamation, “Randy Riter’s latest ‘ciphering’ on the Lower Colorado River Basin water supply,” June 17, 1965.
Witzeman, Dr. Robert. Letter to Cecil Andrus, Secretary of Interior, May 23, 1980.
—. Letter to Governor Jack Williams of Arizona, August 29, 1977.
—. Memorandum to Lee Thompson, January 24, 1980.
CHAPTER FIVE: The Go-Go Years
William Manchester’s The Glory and the Dream is anecdotal history at its best, and contains much fascinating stuff on the Roosevelt years and the New Deal’s glorification of public works.
Donald Worster’s and Paul Bonnifield’s books give strikingly different impressions of the Dust Bowl. To Bonnifield, it was a natural event that would have happened even if the plains hadn’t been overgrazed and plowed up; to Worster, it was almost entirely a man-made disaster. Paul Sears’s Deserts on the March is still the classic book on the subject, and Sears’s conclusions land much closer to Worster than to Bonnifield (who, interestingly, is an Oklahoman).
George Sundborg’s Hail Columbia is the story of the damming of the river from the viewpoint of an ardent New Deal water developer (he was administrative assistant to the late Senator Ernest Gruening, who wanted to dam the Yukon, too, and became exasperated that the Soviet Union was building bigger dams than ours). Albert Williams’s book is more balanced, but not as