The great divide / / Stephen Grace ; photographs by Jim Havey.

"Written by Stephen Grace, the companion book to The Great Divide, a film by Havey Productions, will be a sweeping, magnificently illustrated story of Colorado water from the region's first inhabitants to the incoming settlers and developers to modern environmentalists"--Provided by p...

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Place / Publishing House:Guilford, Connecticut : : TwoDot,, [2015]
2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (217 pages) :; illustrations (some color), maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Author's note
  • Prologue
  • Coping with scarcity : the first Coloradans
  • Gold Rush and settlement : the origins of Colorado's water laws
  • Abundance in a dry land : the rise of agriculture
  • Dammed and diverted : harnessing Colorado's wild rivers
  • Facing limits, finding connections : the environmental movement
  • Crossing the great divide : from conflict to cooperation
  • About the author and photographer.