Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-475) and index.
Contents
Introduction: government and public policy in the nineteenth century -- The legal context, 1848-66: water for sale -- The legal context, 1866-1902: localism and reform -- Private enterprise -- Retreat from Nationalism -- The triumph of sectionalism: state enterprise in California, Nevada, and Colorado -- Wyoming, land cession, and the "terrible nineties" -- The Reclamation Act of 1902 -- Conclusion: the fragmented west.