The Rio Grande was ancient long before the first humans reached its banks. These days, the highly regulated river looks nothing like it did to those early settlers. Alternately viewed as a valuable ecosystem and life-sustaining foundation of community welfare or a commodity to be engineered to yield maximum economic benefit, the Rio Grande has brought many advantages to those who live in its valley, but the benefits have come at a price.
This study examines human interactions with the Rio Grande from prehistoric time to the present day and explores what possibilities remain for the desert river. From the perspectives of law, development, tradition, and geology, the authors weigh what has been gained and lost by reining in the Rio Grande.

Reining in the Rio Grande: People, Land, and Water

Phillips, Fred M.

Hall, G. Emlen

Black, Mary E.

History

University of New Mexico Press

Desert people and mountain men: Exploration of the Great Basin, 1824-1865

Chalfant Press

By the year 1820 virtually all the North American continent had been discovered and explored by the new civilization.There remained only one lacunae, one gap in the mapping of the continent. Between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada stretched an empty tract, an unknown land. Contents: Introduction; The People; The Explorers: (Jedediah Strong Smith: the First and the Greatest, Peter Skene Ogden: The Forgotten Explorer, Joseph R. Walker: The Fighting Explorer, John Charles Fremont: Pathfinder or Politician?); The Immigrants.

Desert People and Mountain Men: Exploration of the Great Basin, 1824-1865

Chalfant Pr

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