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Daniel Jack Chasan’s The Water Link and Anthony Netboy’s The Columbia River Salmon and Steelhead Trout: Their Fight for Survival both contain mournful accounts of the fabulous fisheries destroyed by dams and logging in the Northwest.

Considerable information on the WPPSS fiasco, an indirect result of the huge dam-construction program in the Northwest (and something which I passed over rather lightly in the chapter), is in the files of the Natural Resources Defense Council in San Francisco.

Important interviews for this chapter: Phil Nalder, Frank Weil, Larry Meinert, Floyd Dominy, Ralph Cavanagh, Jim Casey, Horace Albright, Samuel Hays, Gilbert Stamm, C. J. Kuiper, Gus Norwood, A. J. Voy, Daniel Dreyfus.

BOOKS

Bonnifield, Paul. The Dust Bowl. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1979.

Chasan, Daniel Jack. The, Water Link. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1981.

Columbia Basin Irrigation Project Report. Washington, D.C.: House Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, 1928.

The Columbia River: A Camprehensive Report. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1947.

Holbrook, Stewart. The Columbia River. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1965.

Ickes, Harold. The Secret Diary of Harold Ickes. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953.

Johanson, Dorothy O., and Charles M. Gates. Empire of the Columbia. New York: Harper and Row, 1957.

Jones, Fred O. Grand Coulee from “Hell To Breakfast.” Portland, Ore.: Bin-fords and Mort, 1947.

Lavender, David. Land of Giants. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1958.

Lowi, Theodore. The End of Liberalism. New York: Norton, 1969.

—. Legislative Politics U.S.A. (esp. “How the Farmers Get What They Want”). Boston: Little, Brown, 1962.

Manchester, William. The Glory and the Dream. New York: Bantam, 1975.

Netboy, Anthony. The Columbia River Salmon and Steelhead Trout: Their Fight for Survival. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1980.

Neuberger, Richard. Our Promised Land. New York: Macmillan, 1938.

Schad, Theodore, and John Kerr Rose. Reclamation: Accomplishments and Contributions. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress Legislative Reference Service, 1958.

Sears, Paul. Deserts on the March. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1935.

Sheridan, David. Desertification of the United States. Washington, D.C.: Council on Environmental Quality, 1981.

Sundborg, George. Hail Columbia: The Thirty-Year Struggle for Grand Coulee Dam. New York: Macmillan, 1954.

Ten Rivers in America’s Future. Report of the President’s Water Resources Policy Commission. Washington, D.C., 1950.

Warne, William E. The Bureau of Reclamation. New York: Praeger, 1973.

Williams, Albert N. The Water and the Power. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1951.

Worster, Donald. Dust Bowl. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

ARTICLES AND REPORTS

Case, Robert Ormond. “Eighth World Wonder.” Saturday Evening Post, July 13, 1935.

Davenport, Walter. “Power in the Wilderness: Grand Coulee and Bonneville.” Collier’s, September 21, 1935.

George W. Goethals and Company. Columbia Basin Irrigation Project, State of Washington: A Report. Washington State Department of Conservation and Development, 1922.

“Grand Coulee Dam Is Again the Biggest.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 17, 1980.

Marshall, Jim. “Dam of Doubt.” Collier’s, June 19, 1937.

“Salmon Shortage Cited as Eagles Shun Stream.” New York Times, December 5, 1982.

Taylor, Frank. “The White Elephant Comes into Its Own.” Saturday Evening Post, June 5, 1943.

Tucker, Ray. “Interior’s Adventures in the Missouri Basin.” Public Utilities Fortnightly, July 17, 1952.

“Washington’s Power Problem.” New York Times, February 15, 1983.

“What’s Happening on the Ainsworth Project?” Nebraska Farmer, January 1964.

“Where’s the Limit on Reclamation Projects?” Nebraska Farmer, March 1964.

“WPPSS Preparing to Sell What Remains of Two Huge Nuclear Units, Piece by Piece.” Wall Street Journal, August 4, 1983.

LETTERS, MEMORANDA, MISCELLANEOUS

Bellport, Barney. Blue envelope memorandum to Commissioner Dominy, “Delegation of design and specifications