Water and Agriculture in Colorado and the American West: First in Line for the Rio Grande

by David Stiller

Water has always been one of the American West's most precious and limited resources. The earliest inhabitants--Native Americans and later Hispanics--learned to share the region's scant rainfall and snowmelt. When Euro-Americans arrived in the middle of the nineteenth century, they brought with them not only an interest in large-scale commercial agriculture but also new practices and laws about access to, and control of, the water essential for their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1948908808
• ISBN13: 9781948908801
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"