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Cadillac Desert
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Cadillac Desert (1986) (edit title/settings)

The American West and Its Disappearing Water

by Marc Reisner (edit contributors)

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Newly updated, this timely history of the struggle to discover and control water in the American West is a tale of rivers diverted and damned, political corruption and intrigue, billion-dollar battles over water rights, and economic and ecological disaster. Winner of the National Book Critics... read more

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The American West was explored by white men half a century before the first colonists set foot on Virginia's beaches, but it went virtually uninhabited by whites for another three hundred years.

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  1. Marc Reisner

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Viking
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Publication Date: 1986
ISBN: 0670199273
Page Count: 582

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