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1) Durango
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Former politician Daniel Sheridan sees a scandal from his past resurface when he returns to his hometown to resolve a battle over water rights.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Examines how Colorado agriculturists, from the Ancestral Puebloans to twenty-first-century ranchers and farmers, have adapted to and sought to overcome the natural limits of land and water. Documents the state's farming history and provides context for significant methodological and ideological transformations, including the organic, local foods movement."--
8) The Colorado Doctrine: water rights, corporations, and distributive justice on the American frontier
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
"Making extensive use of archival and other primary sources, David Schorr demonstrates that the development of the 'appropriation doctrine,' a system of private rights in water, was part of a radical attack on monopoly and corporate power in the arid West. Schorr describes how Colorado miners, irrigators, lawmakers, and judges forged a system of private property in water based on a desire to spread property and its benefits as widely as possible among...
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