...Michael Welsh For those who are interested in how such a small source of water (the San Luis Valley holds less than 1 percent of all of Colorado's stream flows) could attract so much attention from scholars, scientists, and visitors alike, David Stiller's work is a good start. Another generation...

...Matthew C. Godfrey [email protected] Cattle Beet Capital: Making Industrial Agriculture in Northern Colorado . By Michael Weeks . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2022 . 348 pp. $60.00 , hardcover, ISBN 9781496208415 . Copyright © 2024...

...Patricia J. Rettig [email protected] The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau . By Erika Marie Bsumek . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2023 . 336 pp., $45.00 , hardcover, ISBN 9781477303818 . Copyright...

...Donald C. Jackson The Colorado Doctrine: Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier . By David Schorr . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2012 . 256 pp., $65.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-300-13447-6 . © the Agricultural History society, 2014...

... is an exceptional study that succeeds in drawing out the far-reaching social and historical implications of a single crisis in rural China s tumultuous twentieth-century experience. Matthew Noellert University of Iowa Legacies of Dust: Land Use and Labor on the Colorado Plains. By Douglas Sheflin. Lincoln...

...Modupe Labode Sites of Insight: A Guide to Colorado Sacred Places . James Lough and Christie Smith . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 232 / Agricultural History Cochrane offers details about administration, buy-out procedures, subsidy structures, and timelines...

...Janet Ore Democracy’s University: A History of Colorado State University, 1970–2000 . James E. Hansen II . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 2009 Book Reviews withNBC madeitintoa networkhit;afterthat,atWCCO inMinneapolisi,t joineda...

...Donald C. Jackson The Yuma Reclamation Project: Irrigation, Indian Allotment, and Settlement along the Lower Colorado River . Robert A. Sauder . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 Book Reviews for orange trees,Henry Sanford turned to indentured Swedish laborers to work his...

...Douglas Sheflin Abstract This article highlights Colorado Cooperative Extension Service (CCES) employee A. J. Hamman to demonstrate how Extension employees began acting as intermediaries between farmers and the federal government in the face of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. The dual crises...

...Susan E. Diggle; Louis A. Hieb Abstract Early Spanish colonists in regions of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado sought locations where irrigation works could be constructed to make new settlements possible. Between 1867 and 1872 four Hispanic villages, based on an economy of irrigation...

... of the West. In Colorado, which, like California, is a “first in time, first in right” state in regard to water, fast-growing municipalities are buying water rights from farmers, who then rent their land out for dryland farming or grazing. The city of Aurora, for example, has been buying water rights from...

... 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...

... of the information presented. Thaddeus Sunseri Colorado State University Asia Ogata-Mura: Sowing Dissent and Reclaiming Identity in a Japanese Farming Village. By Donald C. Wood. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012. 262 pp., $90.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-85745-524-6. Building on seventeen years of research, this book...

..., but the fact that the reader will want to learn more testifies to LaCombe s achievement in whetting our appetite. Virginia DeJohn Anderson University of Colorado Barns of New York: Rural Architecture of the Empire State. By Cynthia G. Falk. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012. 296 pp., $27.95, paperback...

... with the colonial state s policies of agrarianism in intensifying their agriculture, it was in their close relationship with the forests that they showed resistance to colonial policy. Prakash Kumar Colorado State University Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War Food in Twentieth-Century Korea. By Katarzyna J. Cwiertka...

... the complicated early days of a movement that is more relevant to today s times than ever before. Jonathan Rees Colorado State University, Pueblo Pecan America: Exploring a Cultural Icon. By John Gifford. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2019. 197 pp., $26.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-70062835-3. John Gifford...

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... interpretation of a well-chronicled moment in American agricultural history. Paul S. Sutter University of Colorado Boulder 147 ...