Cadillac Desert_ The American West and Its Disappearing Water - Marc Reisner [368]
Weiman, David
Weinberg, Edward
Welch, Richard J.
Weldon Valley, Colo., Narrows Dam and
Wellton-Mohawk Project
West:
climatic extremes in
drainage as issue in
droughts in
exploration of
land allotment in
land fraud in
rainfall in
settlement of
West, Arleigh
Westlands Water District
CVP and
Wheeler, Raymond A.
Where to Emigrate and Why (Goddard)
Whitten, Jamie
Wilbur, Ray Lyman
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
Wilderness Society
Wilford, Idaho, Teton flood and
Williams, Albert
Wilson, Richard
Wirth, Tim
Woods, Wilfred
Woodward-Clyde
World War II
aluminum production and
Grand Coulee Dam and
Tulare Basin rivers and
Wright, Jim:
Carter’s conflicts with
water projects promoted by
Wright Act
Wyatt, Wayne
Wyoming
agriculture in
Fontenelle Dam and
Great Drought in
Kendrick Project in
land allotment in
Pacific Southwest Water Plan and
settlement of
Yavapai Indians, Orme Dam and
Yellowstone River, dams on
Yosemite Park, Mulholland on
Young, Brigham
Young, Clement
Young, Robert
Yuma Desalination Plant
Yuma Irrigation Project
Three godfathers of the newly reclaimed West. AT LEFT: John Wesley Powell, who got things moving. BELOW, LEFT: Michael Straus, the millionaire commissioner of reclamation, who under FDR and Truman threw up hundreds of dams. BELOW, RIGHT: Floyd Dominy, the two-listed commissioner who rode reclamation’s falling star.
Mules lugging sections of the Los Angeles Aqueduct into place. At the time, no
motorized vehicle existed that could haul anything so heavy.
(Photo Department of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power)
The Owens Valley before the Los Angeles Aqueduct was completed.
(Photo Department of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power)
The three main actors, from Los Angeles’ standpoint, in the Owens Valley episode. AT RIGHT: Fred Eaton, the ex-mayor who ultimately felt betrayed by the city he helped create. BELOW, LEFT: J. B. Lippincott, who acted as a double agent in behalf of the city. BELOW, RIGHT: William Mulholland, the man who brought the water. (Photo Department of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power)
ABOVE AND BELOW: Two views of Los Angeles—the squalid pueblo in 1869, and the
megalopolis, at once tawdry and glitzy, that water built, in the late 1950s.
(Photo Department of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power)
OPPOSITE: Rare photos of the Saint Francis Dam, before and after its collapse. After the disaster, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power attempted to acquire and hoard as many photos as it could find; it didn’t release them until many years later. A virtually identical dam, which creates the Hollywood Reservoir, was faced with earth and seeded with grass and trees so people living below it would be less inclined to think about the Saint Francis catastrophe, which, according to official records, killed more people than the San Francisco earthquake. (Photo Department of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power)
A section of the just-completed Los Angeles Aqueduct crosses the Mojave Desert. (Photo Department of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power)
Looking like a masterwork left by the Romans, Theodore Roosevelt Dam stands athwart the Salt River in Arizona. The Bureau of Reclamation’s first great structure- and the prototype of all high, curved-arch dams—Roosevelt Dam was constructed entirely of huge stone blocks hewn from cliffs in the Salt River Canyon. (Bureau of Reclamation)
Still the architectural masterpiece among all the world’s dams. Hoover rises seventy stories from the bed of the Colorado River. Though Hoover appears minuscule compared to Lake Mead, whose length is greater than a hundred miles—it widens considerably a few miles upriver—the dam may outlast the reservoir. (Bureau of Reclamation)
Grand Coulee Dam under construction in June of 1938. Appearances are deceptive: the width of the dam is four fifths of a mile. (Bureau of Reclamation)
George Gillette, chairman of the Fort Berthold Indian Tribe Business Council, weeps as he watches