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Report on the lands of the arid region of the United States, with a more detailed account of the lands of Utah
John Wesley Powell and others
The man who ran the Colorado River rapids came home with a warning about the West. Powell describes the arid region, which lands can be irrigated, and why water, not soil, would decide the fate of settlement beyond the hundredth meridian. A prophetic report that still shapes the American West. Read the blueprint for living in dry country.
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80 chapters
- 1REPORT ON THE LANDS OF THE ARID REGION OF THE UNITED STATES,
- 2PREFACE.
- 3PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- 4TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- 5CHAPTER I. PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ARID REGION.
- 6THE ARID REGION.
- 7IRRIGABLE LANDS.
- 8ADVANTAGES OF IRRIGATION.
- 9COÖPERATIVE LABOR OR CAPITAL NECESSARY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF IRRIGATION.
- 10THE USE OF SMALLER STREAMS SOMETIMES INTERFERES WITH THE USE OF THE LARGER.
- 11INCREASE OF IRRIGABLE AREA BY THE STORAGE OF WATER.
- 12TIMBER LANDS.
- 13AGRICULTURAL AND TIMBER INDUSTRIES DIFFERENTIATED.
- 14CULTIVATION OF TIMBER.
- 15PASTURAGE LANDS.
- 16PASTURAGE FARMS NEED SMALL TRACTS OF IRRIGABLE LAND.
- 17THE FARM UNIT FOR PASTURAGE LANDS.
- 18REGULAR DIVISION LINES FOR PASTURAGE FARMS NOT PRACTICABLE.
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