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Vision or Villainy : Origins of the Owens Valley-Los Angeles Water Controversy Environmental History Series ; No. 3
author
:
Hoffman, Abraham.
publisher
:
Texas A&M University Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0890965099
print isbn13
:
9780890965092
ebook isbn13
:
9780585247649
language
:
English
subject
Water-supply--California--Los Angeles--History, Water resources development--California--Owens River Valley--History.
publication date
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1992
lcc
:
HD4464.L7H64eb
ddc
:
333.91/009794/94
subject
:
Water-supply--California--Los Angeles--History, Water resources development--California--Owens River Valley--History.
Page i
Number Three: Environmental History Series MARTIN V. MELOSI, General Editor
Page v
Vision or Villainy
Origins of the Owens Valley-Los Angeles Water Controversy
By Abraham Hoffman
Page vi
Copyright 1981 by Abraham Hoffman All rights reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Hoffman, Abraham.
Vision or villainy.
(Environmental history series ; no. 3) Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Los Angeles (Calif.)Water-supplyHistory. 2. Water resources developmentCaliforniaOwens ValleyHistory. I. Title. II. Title: Owens ValleyLos Angeles water controversy. III. Series. HD4464.L7H64 333.91'009794'94 806111 ISBN 0-89096-112-3 AACR2
Manufactured in the United States of America Second printing, 1992
Page vii
To John and LaRee Caughey and Everett and Anna Marie Hager
Page ix
Contents
List of Illustrations
xi
Preface
xiii
List of Abbreviations
xxi
1. Owens Valley and the City of Los Angeles
3
2. Private versus Public Control of the Los Angeles River
18
3. The Reclamation Service and the Owens Valley Project
47
4. City Speculations, Valley Accusations, and Government Investigations
91
5. An Aqueduct for Los Angeles
136
6. The Water Wars of the 1920's
174
7. Andrae Nordskog and the Persistence of Conspiracy History
208
8. Dominance of the Department of Water and Power
244
Bibliography
277
Index
299
Page xi
List of Illustrations
Map of Los Angeles Aqueduct System
following page 138
Mount McGee in Long Valley
Owens River
Water wheel on Los Angeles River
Los Angeles River
Los Angeles' first reservoir
William Mulholland
Joseph Barlow Lippincott
Los Angeles Plaza, ca. 1868
Los Angeles Plaza, 1890's
Mary Austin
William B. Mathews
Frederick H. Newell
Arthur Powell Davis
Harry Chandler
Moses H. Sherman
Edwin T. Earl
Harrison Gray Otis
Los Angeles Board of Water Commissioners
Lippincott, Eaton, and Mulholland
Surveying the aqueduct route
Aqueduct construction camp
Mule team hauling steel pipes
Aqueduct siphons
Workers at Elizabeth Tunnel
Visiting an aqueduct work camp
Inspecting intake gates at Owens River
Owensmouth Cascades celebration
Celebration ribbon
Page xii
Souvenir pennant of celebration
Opening gates at Tunnel No. 108
William Mulholland at dedication of Mulholland Highway
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