...Joe Regan Abstract This article explores the lower Mississippi valley's antebellum history to uncover the role of Irish immigrant laborers in the riverine economy of the Cotton Kingdom. In particular, this article examines the experience of Irish laborers as canallers and ditchers on plantations...

... of Chimney Rock (Gering, Nebr.: Courier Press, 1966 ), 162 . 10 Farmers Canal Co. v. Frank , Nebr. Sup. Ct. 72, C. Letton 136, 142 ( 1904 ) Register of Deeds, Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, "Miscellaneous," 2:558 11 Petition of the Farmer’s Irrigation District, in the Matter...

... Bench Canal and Irrigation Company Collection, 18631976 (Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1979 ). 28 Provo Bench Canal and Irrigation Company, Board Minutes, 4,6, and 11 December 1869, 3, 4, and 19 January, 15 March, 1 and 25 May and August 1870 David Evans, Lehi, to Leonard E...

...figure 3. A crowd gathering around the canal outlet near Cache Junction's pumping station for the ceremonial start of the Petersboro irrigation system, ca. 1920. A-2982. Courtesy of Utah State University Special Collections and Archives, Merrill-Cazier Library. ...

.... As the Indus, Jhelum, Ravi, Beas, Chenab, and Sutlej Rivers hurtle from the Himalayas to the Arabian sea, their flows today are interrupted by barrages, weirs, canals, and multipurpose dams. This momentous infrastructural modification of the Indus region, initiated by British colonial rule in the nineteenth...

... and Reservoir: A Minimalist's Approach in Woodruff, Utah ROBERT PARSON Louis Stuart, a second-generation farmer from Woodruff, Utah, walked along his canal, carrying a pitchfork whose tines he had forged and bent at right angles. Louis used the implement to hook the moss and watercress blocking the flow of his...

.... "Certain it is," AssistantEngineerNathanW. Irsfeldwroteto SouthworthfromSacaton in February,"more acres of (reservation)land wentdownstreamwiththe last flood." The torrentleftseveral canals on the reservationin "very bad condition,"withthe recentlyconstructedwingdam at the head of the Little Gila River...

... the establishment of Punjab's canal colonies discussed planned settlements on former scrublands around canals in Punjab, built to further the British colonial government's intention of bringing more land under cultivation and irrigation and improving agriculture in the region. 2 Another reading opened up...

... twentieth century, central Washington was presented as the epitome of Jeffersonian agrarianism: a land of fertile soil, long days of summer sun, and clear mountain streams that fed irrigation canals. All one had to do was plant trees and wait for nature to do its job. Small, irrigated farms would enable...

... in 1896, sustained by a canal taken out of the South Fork of the Shoshone. Virtually the entire area of the reclamation project was unoccupied public land, but several small towns and farming areas also depen? dent upon the river for irrigation and domestic water were just downstream from the project...

... were mixed, and the author provides good readings of classics from Bambi to Wild kingdom. not coincidentally, famous environmental icons from the time were cartoons think smokey Bear and Woodsy owl. riney-kehrberg uses denver s high line canal to explore the 1960s and 1970s as the last hurrah of truly...

... contentious-e.g., subheads in an extended discussion of the impact of canal-buildingon the northeasternstates include"WagonsDefeat the New EnglandCanalsDid New YorkState Need the Erie Canaland "MarylandSquandersIts Public Revenuesbut this takes a back seat to the more serious exposition of his...

... mediated via film. The messages of these films were mixed, and the author provides good readings of classics from Bambi to Wild kingdom. not coincidentally, famous environmental icons from the time were cartoons think smokey Bear and Woodsy owl. riney-kehrberg uses denver s high line canal to explore...

... and Exports, Monies, Weights, and Measures ( London : Whittaker , 1840 ), 410 – 11 . 24. Oliver G. Steele , Steele’s Western Guide Book, and Emigrant’s Directory... ( Buffalo : Oliver G. Steele , 1836 ); Carol Sheriff , The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress...

..., whenflatboatcaptainss,hippingmerchantosn canals,andrailroadsall competedto shipfarmproductsI.n thisperiod,farmersn,otmiddlemenr,eaped thebulkofprofitfsromthesale ofagriculturaplroductsS.alstromcontends thatfarmfamilies"sat at thecontrolsof a plethoraof economicoptions" becausethey"didnothaveto raisefoodforcommerciaml...

... lines on the Columbia, argued that the dams would enable river carriers to "tap the heavy tonnages originating in central and eastern Washington and western Idaho." Once in place, the Columbia and Snake dams would "practically canalize the Columbia River" and give Portland "a decided rate advantage over...

... geological depression, the Salton Sink, which has no external drainage. What flows in either remains or evaporates. The sea was created in 1905 when a canal to bring irrigation water from the Colorado River to dryland farms in the Salton Sink failed, thus allowing the Colorado River to flow uncontrolled...

... at "technological foundation stories," Nye deconstructs how European-Americans conceived "a second creation built in harmony with God's first creation" (1). He analyzes four narratives centered on particular technologies used to im? prove nature?the axe, the mill, the canal and the railroad, and irrigation? from...