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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Green, Donald E., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Land of the Underground Rain : Irrigation on the Texas High Plains, 1910-1970 / Donald E. Green. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©1973 1 online resource (326 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Barrier to Settlement -- 2. The Western Irrigation Movement and the Great Plains -- 3. Water Resources of the Southern High Plains -- 4. The Adaptation of Pump Irrigation Technology to the Great Plains -- 5. Land Speculators and the Beginnings of Irrigation on the Texas High Plains, 1900-1910 -- 6. The Land Speculator as a Promoter and Developer of Irrigation on the Texas High Plains -- 7. Early Failure of Pump Irrigation, 1910-1920 -- 8. Dust Bowl, New Deal, and the Revival of Irrigation -- 9. The Expansion of Irrigation, 1940-1960 -- 10. The Problem of Ground-Water Conservation -- 11. The Contemporary High Plains -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 from windmills to the modern high-speed irrigation pumps took place over several decades. Three phases characterized the movement toward irrigation. In the period from 1910 to 1920, large-volume pumping plants first appeared in the region, but, due to national and regional circumstances, these premature efforts were largely abortive. The second phase began as a response to the drouth of the Dust Bowl and continued into the 1950s. By 1959, irrigation had become an important aspect of the flourishing High Plains economy. The decade of the 1960s was characterized chiefly by a growing alarm over the declining ground water table caused by massive pumping, and by investigations of other water sources. Land of the Underground Rain is a study in human use and threatened exhaustion of the High Plains' most valuable natural resource. Ground water was so plentiful that settlers believed it flowed inexhaustibly from some faraway place or mysteriously from a giant underground river. Whatever the source, they believed that it was being constantly replenished, and until the 1950s they generally opposed effective conservation of ground water. A growing number of weak and dry wells then made it apparent that Plains residents were "mining" an exhaustible resource. The Texas High Plains region has been far more successful in exploiting its resource than in conserving it. The very success of its pump technology has produced its environmental crisis. The problem brought about by the threatened exhaustion of this resource still awaits a solution. This study is the first comprehensive history of irrigation on the Texas High Plains, and it is the first comprehensive treatment of the development of twentieth-century pump irrigation in any area of the United States. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022) Groundwater Texas. Irrigation Great Plains History. Irrigation Texas History. NATURE / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000 9783110745351 https://doi.org/10.7560/746046 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292772304 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292772304/original |
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Green, Donald E., Green, Donald E., Land of the Underground Rain : Irrigation on the Texas High Plains, 1910-1970 / Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Barrier to Settlement -- 2. The Western Irrigation Movement and the Great Plains -- 3. Water Resources of the Southern High Plains -- 4. The Adaptation of Pump Irrigation Technology to the Great Plains -- 5. Land Speculators and the Beginnings of Irrigation on the Texas High Plains, 1900-1910 -- 6. The Land Speculator as a Promoter and Developer of Irrigation on the Texas High Plains -- 7. Early Failure of Pump Irrigation, 1910-1920 -- 8. Dust Bowl, New Deal, and the Revival of Irrigation -- 9. The Expansion of Irrigation, 1940-1960 -- 10. The Problem of Ground-Water Conservation -- 11. The Contemporary High Plains -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Barrier to Settlement -- 2. The Western Irrigation Movement and the Great Plains -- 3. Water Resources of the Southern High Plains -- 4. The Adaptation of Pump Irrigation Technology to the Great Plains -- 5. Land Speculators and the Beginnings of Irrigation on the Texas High Plains, 1900-1910 -- 6. The Land Speculator as a Promoter and Developer of Irrigation on the Texas High Plains -- 7. Early Failure of Pump Irrigation, 1910-1920 -- 8. Dust Bowl, New Deal, and the Revival of Irrigation -- 9. The Expansion of Irrigation, 1940-1960 -- 10. The Problem of Ground-Water Conservation -- 11. The Contemporary High Plains -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Barrier to Settlement -- 2. The Western Irrigation Movement and the Great Plains -- 3. Water Resources of the Southern High Plains -- 4. The Adaptation of Pump Irrigation Technology to the Great Plains -- 5. Land Speculators and the Beginnings of Irrigation on the Texas High Plains, 1900-1910 -- 6. The Land Speculator as a Promoter and Developer of Irrigation on the Texas High Plains -- 7. Early Failure of Pump Irrigation, 1910-1920 -- 8. Dust Bowl, New Deal, and the Revival of Irrigation -- 9. The Expansion of Irrigation, 1940-1960 -- 10. The Problem of Ground-Water Conservation -- 11. The Contemporary High Plains -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index |
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