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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
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Water-supply Paper
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
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Water Levels and Artesian Pressure in Observation Wells in the United States
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Research Catalog of the Library of the American Museum of Natural History
Author: American Museum of Natural History. Library
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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Mining and Scientific Press
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
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Western Machinery and Steel World
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Western Machinery and Steel
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Category : Engineering
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Pages : 578
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Western Engineering
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Damming Grand Canyon
Author: Diane E Boyer
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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In 1923, America paid close attention, via special radio broadcasts, newspaper headlines, and cover stories in popular magazines, as a government party descended the Colorado to survey Grand Canyon. Fifty years after John Wesley Powell's journey, the canyon still had an aura of mystery and extreme danger. At one point, the party was thought lost in a flood. Something important besides adventure was going on. Led by Claude Birdseye and including colorful characters such as early river-runner Emery Kolb, popular writer Lewis Freeman, and hydraulic engineer Eugene La Rue, the expedition not only made the first accurate survey of the river gorge but sought to decide the canyon's fate. The primary goal was to determine the best places to dam the Grand. With Boulder Dam not yet built, the USGS, especially La Rue, contested with the Bureau of Reclamation over how best to develop the Colorado River. The survey party played a major role in what was known and thought about Grand Canyon. The authors weave a narrative from the party's firsthand accounts and frame it with a thorough history of water politics and development and the Colorado River. The recommended dams were not built, but the survey both provided base data that stood the test of time and helped define Grand Canyon in the popular imagination. Also by Robert Webb: Lee's Ferry
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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In 1923, America paid close attention, via special radio broadcasts, newspaper headlines, and cover stories in popular magazines, as a government party descended the Colorado to survey Grand Canyon. Fifty years after John Wesley Powell's journey, the canyon still had an aura of mystery and extreme danger. At one point, the party was thought lost in a flood. Something important besides adventure was going on. Led by Claude Birdseye and including colorful characters such as early river-runner Emery Kolb, popular writer Lewis Freeman, and hydraulic engineer Eugene La Rue, the expedition not only made the first accurate survey of the river gorge but sought to decide the canyon's fate. The primary goal was to determine the best places to dam the Grand. With Boulder Dam not yet built, the USGS, especially La Rue, contested with the Bureau of Reclamation over how best to develop the Colorado River. The survey party played a major role in what was known and thought about Grand Canyon. The authors weave a narrative from the party's firsthand accounts and frame it with a thorough history of water politics and development and the Colorado River. The recommended dams were not built, but the survey both provided base data that stood the test of time and helped define Grand Canyon in the popular imagination. Also by Robert Webb: Lee's Ferry
Surface Water Supply of the United States, 1911
Author: Robert Follansbee
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Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Women of the West
Author: Max Binheim
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Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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