SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

The study is heavily footnoted, and this bibliography highlights recent scholarship critical to its argument. In addition, my original version of a Newlands biography, The Early Career of Francis G. Newlands, 1848-1898, is more heavily footnoted and has an extensive, eleven-page bibliography, which is rich in primary sources relating to economic development in San Francisco and Nevada, 1870-1898. These primary sources include contemporary company records and regulatory proceedings. The Early Career of Francis G. Newlands, 1848-1898 was written as a PhD dissertation at Yale in 1965. It is available from Pro Quest Dissertations & Theses, an Ann Arbor-based company with an online presence. The original bibliography is reprinted pp. 333-344.

RECENT BOOKS ON WATER IN THE WEST

Samuel P Hays, Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency (Univ. Pittsburgh, 1999)

Donald J. Pisani, To Reclaim a Divided West: Water, Laws & Public Policy, 1848-1902 (Albuquerque, 1992)

Donald J. Pisani, Water, Land & Law in the West, 1850-1920 (Univ. Kansas, 1996)

Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Penguin: NY, 2017)

Donald Worster, Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West (Oxford, NY, 1992) 

RECENT BIOGRAPHIES

James R. Kluger, Turning Water On with a Shovel: The Career of Elwood Mead (Albuquerque, 1992)

Michael J. Mackley, Infamous King of the Comstock: William Sharon and the Gilded Age West (Univ Nevada, 2006)

Gordon E. Nelson, The Lobbyist: The Story of George H. Maxwell, Irrigation Crusader (Bowie, MD, 2001)

William D. Rowley, Reclaiming the Arid West: The Career of Francis G. Newlands (Univ Indiana, 1995)

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES ON IRRIGATION IN THE WEST

William Lilley III & Lewis L. Gould, The Western Irrigation Movement, 1878-1902: A Reappraisal, The American West: A Reorientation, vol xxxii, Univ of Wyoming Publications (1966), 57-74

Donald J. Pisani, George Maxwell, the Railroads and American Land Policy, Pacific Historical Review V.63 (May, 1994), 177-202

William D. Rowley, Opposition to Arid Land Irrigation in Nevada, 1890-1900, Annual Report Association of the Pacific Coast Geographers V. 43 (1981),113-123.