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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (3): 391–419.
Published: 01 July 2003
...Donald J. Pisani Abstract "Federal Reclamation and the American West in the Twentieth Century" looks at four phases in the history of the Bureau of Reclamation. The first phase lasted from the adoption of the Reclamation Act of 1902 into the 1930s. In those years, the bureau attempted to create...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (1): 120–121.
Published: 01 January 2004
...Thomas G. Alexander Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935 . Donald J. Pisani . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 120 / Agricultural History areas more susceptible to numerous negative conditions...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 555–556.
Published: 01 October 2010
...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...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 451–478.
Published: 01 October 2010
...," Michigan History 72 (JulyAug. 1988): 28–34 Margaret Beattie Bogue, "The Swamp Land Act and Wet Land Utilization in Illinois, 1850–1890," Agricultural History 25 (Oct. 1951): 169–80 Robert W. Harrison and Walter M. Kollmorgen, "Land Reclamation in Arkansas Under the Swamp Land Grant of 1850," Arkansas...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 188–207.
Published: 01 April 2002
... State University Press, 1994 ), 239 2
U.S. Department of the Interior
, Federal Reclamation and Related Laws Annotated (Washing¬ ton, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1972 ), 1 : 51 Gates, History, 661 Burley Bulletin (Idaho), 4 August1911 3 Richard
White...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (3): 366–368.
Published: 01 July 2001
...Lynn A. Nelson From Reclamation to Sustainability: Water, Agriculture, and the Environment in the American West . Lawrence J. MacDonnell . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 366 / Agricultural History country store and the appearance of diverse ethnic groups, notably...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 331–361.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Mary Summers Abstract Paul Taylor, an agricultural labor economist at Berkeley, worked, often with his wife, the photographer Dorothea Lange, to document the conditions faced by migrant workers during the Depression. In the 1940s, however, he turned to a focus on the Reclamation Act of 1902’s...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 50–70.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Viktor Pál Abstract During the nineteenth century many European scientists shared the view that a nation could compete successfully if only it improved its landscape via new infrastructures, such as large reclamation and river regulation projects, and via the intensive use of natural resources...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (4): 493–519.
Published: 01 October 2011
...Jahue Anderson Abstract This is the story of failure: in this case, an irrigation project that never met its boosters' expectations. Between 1880 and 1930 Wichita Falls entrepreneur Joseph Kemp dreamed of an agrarian Eden on the Texas rolling plains. Kemp promoted reclamation and conservation...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (3): 379–399.
Published: 01 July 2016
... to implement them. It was this context that made the reclamation project so vital an opportunity to seize on: a “clean slate” for social democrats to introduce their own agricultural reforms and prove their viability. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 Notes 1. The author thanks the anonymous...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 448–462.
Published: 01 April 2002
... in Early New Deal," Political Science Quarterly97 (Summer 1982): 255 -78 3 Karen Merrill, "In Search ofthe ’Federal Presence’ in the American West," Western Historical Quarterly30 (Winter1999): 453 , 455 5 U.S. Department ofthe Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Columbia Basin Project Joint...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 463–480.
Published: 01 April 2002
... of the Yakima (Whitman College Library, Walla Walla, Washington, n.d. [pre 1969 ], photocopy) 3 Sheller, Irrigation in the Valleys of the Yakima, 160 Alexander Joss, "Repayment Experience on Federal Reclamation Projects," Journal of Farm Economics27 (February1945): 15367 5 Paul C.
Pitzer...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 154–171.
Published: 01 April 2002
... Outlook for Reclamation Work in California," Forestry and Irrigation 11 (August1905): 349 -53
Lippincott
’s article, " The Reclamation Service in California ," 10 (April1904): 164 Frederick H.
Newell
, " Work of the Reclamation Service in California ," 11 (August1905...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 272–288.
Published: 01 April 2002
...Robert E. Bonner Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 [Footnotes] 1 Reclamation Record , June1915, 249 , 257-58 July 1915, 299 2 Beryl Gail
Churchill
, The Dam Book: The Construction History of Corbett, Buffalo Bill, and Willwood Dams (Cody, Wyo...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 232–243.
Published: 01 April 2002
...Hugh T. Lovin Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 [Footnotes] 1 F. H.
Newell
, " Progress in Reclamation of Arid Lands in the Western United States ," Annual Report to the Board of Regents, 1910 (Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian Institution, 1910), 171 -72. 2...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 144–145.
Published: 01 January 2011
... the opportunity to take up claims on government sponsored reclamation projects in the American West? Ever since the passage of the 1902 Reclamation Act, the federal government had been engaged in a series of not-very-successful efforts to promote and finance small-farm irrigation projects in the West. In the mid...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 451–464.
Published: 01 April 2000
...Brian Q. Cannon Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 [Footnotes] 1 William E.
Warne
, The Bureau of Reclamation (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1973 ), 129 -34 Paul C.
Pitzer
, Grand Coulee: Harnessing a Dream (Pullman: Washington State Uni¬ versity...
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Wetlands Drainage, River Modification, and Sectoral Conflict in the Lower Illinois Valley, 1890–1930
Agricultural History (2002) 76 (4): 735–736.
Published: 01 October 2002
... of the twentieth century. John Thompson portrays the reclamation and its ramifications in great detail. For most of the counties in the 160 milelong study area wetland reclamation was the biggest investment made in their history, although this is overlooked in the county histories because the farm? ers were...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 142–153.
Published: 01 April 2002
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, "Histories of Disturbances," Radical History Review74 (Spring1999): 2 -24 Donald J.
Pisani
, Water and the American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902–1935 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002 ) 6 Las Vegas Age , 1 November1913...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 481–494.
Published: 01 April 2002
... on the Irrigated Lands at Uva, Wyoming," Irrigation Age25 (August1916), 505 . 15 Mead, Second Annual Report, 2. 16 Elwood Mead, First Biennial Report (unpublished State Engineer Report, 1891 and 1892), 2, WSA Report of the Special Committee of the United States Senate on the Irrigation and Reclamation...
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