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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Table of Contents:
- 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