Land of the Underground Rain : : Irrigation on the Texas High Plains, 1910-1970 / / Donald E. Green.
The scarcity of surface water which has so marked the Great Plains is even more characteristic of its subdivision, the Texas High Plains. Settlers on the plateau were forced to use pump technology to tap the vast ground water resources—the underground rain—beneath its flat surface. The evolution fro...
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1973 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (326 p.) |
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