Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition Sunday, August 2 2009.

• 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 Circle Award.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Mark Reisner: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Marc Reisner: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition Thursday, July 16 2009.

• 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.