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Ogallala: water for a dry land
John Opie
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Frontmatter
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List of Illustrations (page ix)
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Preface (page xiii)
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Introduction (page 1)
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1. The First Half‒Billion Years (page 25)
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2. Finding the Water: Boom and Bust, 1870‒1940 (page 54)
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3. From Dryland to Dust Bowl: Not a Good Place to Farm (page 92)
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4. From Windmills to Gigot, Center Pivots, and IBP (page 122)
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5. A Tale of Three Water‒Conservation Districts (page 161)
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6. Making Irrigation Work in a Risky World (page 197)
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7. The Future of Plains Irrigation: Searching for Sustainability (page 223)
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8. The Move toward a Drier World: The Summer of 1988 (page 267)
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9. A One‒Time Experiment (page 286)
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Appendix: Puzzling Out the Plains (page 313)
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Notes (page 337)
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Index (page 401)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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AAAG | 85.2 (Jun. 1995): 378-380 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2564326 |
JEH | 54.1 (Mar. 1994): 229-230 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2122723 |
JAH | 81.3 (Dec. 1994): 1272 |
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Published: c1993
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- 9780803235571 (hardcover)