Watersheds West: Prologue

Western Edition by William Deverell

Dec 2, 20256:46Society & Culture

The infrastructure of water control looms large across the history of the American West. Western rivers and watersheds have long been and remain fundamental sites of contest and power, hope and disappointment. Launching...

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