Books of Note

This page lists a number of books that cover, at least in part, the Colorado River.

• The Yuma Reclamation Project
• Command of the Waters, McCool

• Indian Reserved Water Rights, The Winters Doctrine in its Social and Legal Context 1880s to 1930s. John Shurts. 2000.
  • This book derives from Shurts' PhD dissertation. It is the only book that tells the story of the Winters case that created Indian reserved water rights.

• Markets for Federal Water
• Colossus
• A Story that Stands Like a Dam
• New Courses for the Colorado River
• Vision in the Desert
• The Politics of Water in the Desert
• Restoring Colorado River Ecosystems, Adler
• The Silver Fox of the Rockies, Daniel Tyler, 2003
  • Tyler is a Professor Emeritus of History at Colorado State University. This is the only book on Delph Carpenter, Colorado's delegate to the 1922 Colorado River Compact negotiations. Carpenter is credited with using the Compact Clause of the US Constitution for the Colorado River agreement.

• From Reclamation to Sustainability, MacDonnell
• A River No More, Fradkin
• Dividing the Waters, Hundley
• Water is for Fighting Over
• Arizona Water Policy
• Dead Pool, Powell

• The Last Water Hole in the West, Tyler
  • This is Tyler's 2nd water book -- see Sliver Fox of the Rockies. This book covers the Colorado Big Thompson project, a trans basin diversion from the Colorado River to the South Platte in Colorado.

• Cadillac Desert,
• The Great Thirst, Hundley
• Science Be Dammed, Kuhn and Fleck
• Water and the West, Hundley
• Where the Water Goes
• The Place No One Knew
• The Central Arizona Project
• Colorado Water Law for Non-Lawyers
• Water Politics Continuity and Change
• The Emerald Mile, Kevin Fedarko.
• Unquenchable, Robert Glennon
• A Great Aridness
• Bureau of Reclamation Project Data
• The Colorado River Documents

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