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As Precious as Blood: The Western Slope in Colorado's Water Wars, 1900-1970 Dr. Steven C. Schulte.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schulte, Steven C., 1955- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Water rights--Colorado--Western Slope--History.
- Water rights.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (307 pages) : illustrations, portraits
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2016]
- Summary:
- "A comprehensive study about the contentious issue of the water wars between Colorado's Western Slope--where snows accumulate west of the Continental Divide--and the Front Range, where the ever-expanding population continues to require more municipal water"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Colorado's water : a problem rooted in geography and history
- Colorado's water wars begin, 1920-1940
- Portents of mid-century conflict, 1940-1950
- Colorado's post war water war : the struggle for the CRSP
- Water wars at zenith, 1953-56
- The 1960s : from warfare to tenuous unity
- To the 1970s : water war and or peace?
- Epilogue : reflections in a Colorado (Western Slope) stream.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781607325000
- 1607325004
- OCLC:
- 960855169
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