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A Land Made from Water: Appropriation and the Evolution of Colorado’s Landscape, Ditches, and Water Institutions . By Robert R. Crifasi. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2015. xv + 424 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, table, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00, £36.00.) Donald Worster remarked in his 2013 Western History Association presidential address that the twenty-first century American West is suffering from a “heightened sense of vulnerability.” This region, “once almost immune to a tragic sensibility, now feels its vulnerability and fears what may come.” Certainly, water is key to these worries. Questions about ownership, economic value, and scarcity persist throughout the modern West. Historians such as James Earl Sherow ( Watering the Valley [1990]), Mark Fiege ( Irrigated Eden [1999]), and Karl Boyd Brooks ( Public Power, Private Dams [2006]) provide the scholarly grounding … vaildd{at}unk.edu
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