A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Los Angeles rose to significance in the first half of the twentieth century by way of its complex relationship to three rivers: the Los Angeles, the Owens, and the Colorado. The remarkable urban and suburban trajectory of southern California since then cannot be fully understood without reference to the ways in which each of these three river systems came to be connected to the future of the metropolitan region. This history of growth must be understood in full consideration of all three rivers and the challenges and opportunities they presented to those who would come to make Los Angeles a global power. Full of primary sources and original documents, Water and Los Angeles will be of interest to both students of Los Angeles and general readers interested in the origins of the city.
A Land Use History of Coso Hot Springs, Inyo County, California, by the Iroquois Research Institute, Cecil R. Brooks, William M. Clements, Jo Ann Kantner, and Genevieve Y. Poirier. China Lake, Calif. January 1979.
The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created—William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct—a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one determined man who's vision shaped ...
In this exceptional cultural history, Atlantic Senior Editor Ronald Brownstein—“one of America's best political journalists (The Economist)—tells the kaleidoscopic story of one monumental year that marked the city of Los Angeles’ ...
considerable amount of silt,” declared Dr. Webb in grisly, impassive detail. “And, Doctor, did you reach a conclusion as to the cause of death?” boomed Keyes again, his eyes now firmly fixed on the figure of William Mulholland seated ...
"The definitive work on the West's water crisis." --Newsweek The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water.
When it comes to farm fields and wells , Madera County officials aren't able to provide much information . ... She blames , too , the farmers whose bottom line , and greed , drives them deeper and deeper into the ground for water .
Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of Southern California's history.
Annotation. Seventy-five years ago the growing city of Los Angeles, amid considerable conflict, appropriated water from a rural area 250 miles away. Still unresolved, the controversy surrounding the Owens Valley-Los...
159 lived outside downtown : Sitton , Metropolis , p . 2 . 159 suburban , even antiurban , ethos : Fogelson , Fragmented , p . 147 . 159 " a city without a center " : McWilliams , Southern California , p . 235 .
A poet’s memoir of taking an unplanned trip to the Bahamas and meeting a fishing guide who changed his life: “A splendid book.”—Jim Harrison in The New York Times Book Review Chris Dombrowski, a poet and passionate fly-fisher, had a ...