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Holum, Kenneth. Blue envelope memorandum to Commissioner of Reclamation, “Briefing Session—House Interior Committee—January 28,” January 28, 1965.
Nelson, H. T. Blue envelope memorandum to Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, “Interest of the Idaho Water Resources Board in Middle Snake River Development Program,” October 20, 1967.
Nelson, Harold. Blue envelope memorandum to Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, “Relationships with the Corps of Engineers—Umatilla River Basin,” April 24, 1962.
Peterson, Ottis. Memorandum to Mr. Dominy, March 30, 1967.
—. Blue envelope letter to George N. Pierce, District Manager, Bureau of Reclamation, Juneau, Alaska, June 1, 1965.
Pettingill, Olin. “Convention Country,” Audubon, 1966.
“Reclamation Boss Chides Utah Chief,” Arizona Daily Star, October 20, 1962.
Regional Directors, Bureau of Reclamation, Boise and Denver. Blue envelope letter to Commissioner, “Meeting with the Governor of the State of Wyoming,” April 3, 1962.
Stamm, Gilbert. Blue envelope letter to Floyd Dominy, Director of Irrigation, Bureau of Reclamation, April 26, 1954.
Stuart, Russell. Letter to Stewart Udall, February 18, 1966.
Udall, Stewart. Personal memorandum to Floyd Dominy, Commissioner of Reclamation, February 26, 1966.
“Udall Effects Troubled Truce in Two-Year Carr-Dominy Feud,” Pueblo (Colo.) Chieftain, February 25, 1963.
“Warning to Interior,” Pueblo (Colo.) Chieftain, September 3, 1962.
West, Arleigh. Blue envelope memorandum to Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation. “Excess Lands—Imperial Irrigation District—Boulder Canyon Project, California” (undated).
—. Blue envelope memorandum to Commissioner Dominy. “CONFIDENTIAL: Excess land survey in areas served by Metropolitan Water District, Southern California,” December 30, 1964.
CHAPTER NINE: The Peanut Farmer and the Pork Barrel
This chapter is based mainly on interviews and newspaper reporting. Sources who should be mentioned are Robert Smythe, Richard Ayres, J. Gustave Speth, Jane Yarn, Claude Terry, James Flannery, Peter Carlson, David Conrad, Jim Free, Guy Martin, John Leshy, Laurence Rockefeller, Tom Barlow, David Weiman, Ronald Robie, Congressman Robert Edgar, Brent Blackwelder, former Congressman Robert Eckhardt, Congressman Tom Bevill, John Lawrence, Congressman John Myers, Ruth Fleischer, William Dubois, Daniel Beard, and Steven Lanich.
Congressman Jim Wright’s The Coming Water Famine makes for interesting reading if one wishes to understand how thoroughly a basically self-interested politician can delude himself into thinking he is serving the commonweal.
The Tellico story is drawn partly from Fred Powledge’s Water. A good critical appraisal of the TVA’s record in Appalachia is William Chandler’s The Myth of TVA.
BOOKS
Chandler, William U. The Myth of TVA. Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger, 1984. Powledge, Fred. Water. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982. Reid, T. R. Congressional Odyssey. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1980. Wright, Jim. The Coming Water Famine. New York: Coward-McCann, 1966.
ARTICLES AND REPORTS
“Accord Reached in Westlands Pact.” Sacramento Bee, 1979.
American Rivers, December 1977 (entire issue).
“Andrus, Governors Weigh Drought.” Denver Post, February 21, 1977.
“Andrus Sees No Major Shifts under Successor.” New York Times, November 18, 1980.
“Andrus’s Popularity Washes Away in West.” New York Times, February 20, 1978.
“Belly Up to the Trough, Boys!” New Republic, October 14, 1978.
Broder, David S. “A Most Puzzling Maneuver.” Washington Post, March 16, 1977.
“California Farmers’ Clout Preserves Federal Water Subsidy.” Washington Post, August 19, 1979.
Carter, President Jimmy. “To the Congress of the United States,” February 21, 1977.
—. “To the Congress of the United States,” June 6, 1978.
“Carter in Full Retreat in ‘War on West.’ ” Washington Post. January 1978.
“Carter Opts to Sidestep Fight on 160-Acre Limit.” Sacramento Bee, June 22, 1979.
“Carter Water Policy Hurt.” Washington Post, March 31, 1978.
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