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Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)--History, Columbia Basin Project (U.S.)--History, Water resources development--Columbia River Watershed--History.
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1994
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TC557.W22G737 1994eb
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333.91/0097972
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Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)--History, Columbia Basin Project (U.S.)--History, Water resources development--Columbia River Watershed--History.
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Praise for Grand Coulee
Paul Pitzer has produced a volume that rivals Joseph E. Stevens's prize-winning study of Hoover Dam in its discussion of the construction of Grand Coulee. His work merits a place beside Charles McKinley's Uncle Sam in the Pacific Northwest as one of the most significant studies examining the Pacific Northwest yet to be published.
Richard Lowitt, author The New Deal and the West
Paul Pitzer's splendid study of Grand Coulee Dam and the Columbia Basin reclamation project will be required reading for anyone interested in the future of the Inland Empire or making long-term plans for land redevelopment. It is sure to be consulted by a generation of economists, engineers, politicians, historians, and social critics.
Murray Morgan, author The Dam and Skid Road
Paul Pitzer's marvelous book on Grand Coulee is at once the most complete history of the dam's construction and the best account of its importance to Pacific Northwest history. Pitzer has addressed an impressive range of subjects, from the details of building the massive structure, to the local and national political decisions that led to its construction, to the environmental and social changes it wrought on the landscape. Pitzer's impressive research and analysis is an important contribution to Northwest historiography.
William L. Lang, Director Center for Columbia River History
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Paul Pitzer's history of Grand Coulee Dam and the Columbia Basin Project is thoroughly researched, highly readable, authoritative in the extreme, and a major contribution to our understanding of the development of the modern American West.
Robert E. Ficken, author Washington: A Centennial History
This illuminating book for the first time brings together the controversies and triumphs of the dam's construction and operation, the political issues of hydroelectricity and irrigation, and the effects on surrounding communities and the fish in the "Great River of the West."... A fascinating portrayal based on thorough scholarly research, this convincing account reveals the significance of Grand Coulee for the West and America as a whole.
David H. Stratton, editor Washington Comes of Age
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Grand Coulee Harnessing a Dream
Paul C. Pitzer
Washington State University Press Pullman, Washington
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Washington State University Press, Pullman, Washington, 99164-5910 1994 by the Board of Regents of Washington State University All rights reserved First printing 1994
Printed and bound in the United States of America on pH neutral, acid-free paper. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including recording, photocopying, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Cover design based on a concept by Erik Sturdevant.
Portions of the present work appeared in "The Atmosphere Tasted Like Turnips: The Pacific Northwest Dust Storm of 1933," Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Vol. 79 (1988): 50-55, and "A Farm-In-A-Day: The Publicity Stunt and the Celebrations That Initiated the Columbia Basin Project," Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Vol. 82 (1991): 2-7.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pitzer, Paul C. Grand Coulee: harnessing a dream / Paul C. Pitzer. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87422-113-7 (alk. paper). ISBN 0-87422-110-2 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.) History. 2. Columbia Basin Project (U.S.) History. 3. Water resources development Columbia River Watershed History. I. Title. TC557.W22G737 1994 333.91'0097972 dc20 94-27155 CIP
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To Richard Maxwell Brown It is easier to do a thing when someone you admire and trust believes you can do it.
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Some day at Grand Coulee Dam there will be harnessed 2,000,000 wild horses energy that today is wasting itself away day by day as it flows down the Columbia River, the wildest big stream in the civilized world. Rufus Woods
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