Ditches Across the Desert: Irrigation in the Lower Pecos Valley

Ditches Across the Desert: Irrigation in the Lower Pecos Valley by Sthepen Bogener. Published by Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, TX, 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardbound w/Paper DJ. Size 8vo. Condition: Fine in Good DJ. Orig owners name label inside front cover. ISBN 089672509X. LCCN 2003008313. This book illuminates the myriad personalities and interests that combined and clashed over the Pecos Valley reservoirs and canals. Many Americans, including western lawmakers, considered irrigation to be America at its best. Wealthy easterners invested in its development in the great traditions of American capitalism. Farmers laboring side-by-side to transform the desert into productive cropland represented the ideals of Jeffersonian yeoman democracy. These people, and the change of the Pecos Valley from rustic cattle territory to towns and irrigated farmland, form the framework for this rich story of the American West. 340 Pgs. Description text copyright 2007 www.BooksForComfort.com. Item ID 16069.