Cadillac Desert (106 page)

Pacific Southwest Water Plan and

Rampart Dam and

Reclamation Act and

Topock Marsh and

Underwood, Dennis

United Western Investigation (UWI)

Utah

agriculture in

CUP and

desert of

irrigation in

land allotment in

Pacific Southwest Water Plan and

settlement of

van Schilfgaarde, Jan

on drainage and salinity

Vernon, Ken

Walker, Richard

Walker, Willis

Wallace, Henry

Walters, Rudy

Warne, William E.

California North Coast rivers project and

contract water and

Klamath Diversion and

Marysville Dam and

State Water Project and

Warren, Charles

Warren, Francis E.

Wasatch Range

Washington, farmland in

Washington, Nat

Washington Post

Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS)

water:

monopolization of

salinization of

Water for the West
(Robinson)

Water Seekers, The
(Nadeau)

Water Supplies and Economic Growth in an Arid Environment
(Martin and Young)

Water Supply Act

Watt, James Gaius

Watterson, George

Watterson, Mark

Watterson, Wilfred

Wattis, E. O.

Wattis, W. H.

Webb, Walter Prescott

Weil, Charles

Weiman, David

Weinberg, Edward

Welch, Richard J.

Weldon Valley, Colo., Narrows Dam and

Wellton-Mohawk Project

West:

climatic extremes in

drainage as issue in

droughts in

exploration of

land allotment in

land fraud in

rainfall in

settlement of

West, Arleigh

Westlands Water District

CVP and

Wheeler, Raymond A.

Where to Emigrate and Why
(Goddard)

Whitten, Jamie

Wilbur, Ray Lyman

Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

Wilderness Society

Wilford, Idaho, Teton flood and

Williams, Albert

Wilson, Richard

Wirth, Tim

Woods, Wilfred

Woodward-Clyde

World War II

aluminum production and

Grand Coulee Dam and

Tulare Basin rivers and

Wright, Jim:

Carter’s conflicts with

water projects promoted by

Wright Act

Wyatt, Wayne

Wyoming

agriculture in

Fontenelle Dam and

Great Drought in

Kendrick Project in

land allotment in

Pacific Southwest Water Plan and

settlement of

Yavapai Indians, Orme Dam and

Yellowstone River, dams on

Yosemite Park, Mulholland on

Young, Brigham

Young, Clement

Young, Robert

Yuma Desalination Plant

Yuma Irrigation Project

Three godfathers of the newly reclaimed West. AT LEFT: John Wesley Powell, who got things moving. BELOW, LEFT: Michael Straus, the millionaire commissioner of reclamation, who under FDR and Truman threw up hundreds of dams. BELOW, RIGHT: Floyd Dominy, the two-listed commissioner who rode reclamation’s falling star.

Mules lugging sections of the Los Angeles Aqueduct into place. At the time, no

motorized vehicle existed that could haul anything so heavy.

(Photo Department of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power)

The Owens Valley before the Los Angeles Aqueduct was completed.

(Photo Department of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power)

The three main actors, from Los Angeles’ standpoint, in the Owens Valley episode. AT RIGHT: Fred Eaton, the ex-mayor who ultimately felt betrayed by the city he helped create. BELOW, LEFT: J. B. Lippincott, who acted as a double agent in behalf of the city. BELOW, RIGHT: William Mulholland, the man who brought the water.
(Photo Department of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power)

ABOVE AND BELOW: Two views of Los Angeles—the squalid pueblo in 1869, and the

megalopolis, at once tawdry and glitzy, that water built, in the late 1950s.

(Photo Department of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power)

OPPOSITE: Rare photos of the Saint Francis Dam, before and after its collapse. After the disaster, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power attempted to acquire and hoard as many photos as it could find; it didn’t release them until many years later. A virtually identical dam, which creates the Hollywood Reservoir, was faced with earth and seeded with grass and trees so people living below it would be less inclined to think about the Saint Francis catastrophe, which, according to official records, killed more people than the San Francisco earthquake.
(Photo Department of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power)