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" Ditches across the desert : "
Stephen Bogener.
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BL
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1025822
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b780192
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| Main Entry
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Bogener, Steve.
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Ditches across the desert : : irrigation in the lower Pecos Valley /\ Stephen Bogener.
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Lubbock, Tex. :: Texas Tech University Press,, ©2003.
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1 online resource (xi, 340 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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1423762800
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: 6611093192
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: 9781423762805
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: 9786611093198
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089672509X
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9780896725096
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-328) and index.
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| Contents
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Visions of an irrigation empire -- Creosote and sagebrush -- Jackrabbits, canals, and cottonwoods -- Dams and violence in the Pecos Valley -- Companies, canals, and capital -- Railroads and receivership -- Private irrigation drowns in ditches of its own making -- Mr. Wrecklamation man -- Such of the lands economically practicable to irrigate -- God pity the water user? -- An elusive reservoir.
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Irrigation-- Pecos River Valley (N.M. and Tex.)-- History.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Real Estate-- General.
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Irrigation.
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United States, Pecos River Valley.
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333.91/3/097649
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TC824.N6B64 2003eb
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