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.

• 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
• 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
• Unquenchable
• A Great Aridness
• Bureau of Reclamation Project Data
• The Colorado River Documents

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