Additional Resources

This page is dedicated to any additional Colorado River resources including historic literature, narratives, and essays. Visit the Colorado River Resources pages for additional information broken down by major themes and topics.

Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West - Wallace Stegner

Cadillac Desert – Marc Reisner

The Colorado River Compact - R.L. Olson (1926) PhD dissertation from Cambridge, MA:  Harvard

The Colorado River Through the Grand Canyon:  Natural History and Human Change - S.W. Carothers and B.T. Brown (1991)

Command of the Waters - Dan McCool

The Discovery of Global Warming - Spencer R. Weart A thoughtful look at the 100+ year history of global warming science.

Dividing the Waters: A Century of Conflict Between the United States and Mexico - Norris Hundley, Jr.

Global Warming: The Complete Briefing - John T. Houghton A concise, scientifically oriented look at the entrire third IPCC assessment report by its main author.

The Great Thirst: Californians and Water--A History-Norris Hundley, Jr.

Hoover Dam: An American Adventure - Joseph E. Stevens

Indian Reserved Water Rights: The Winters Doctrine in Its Social and Legal Context - John Shurts

Last Water Hole in the West – Daniel Tyler

Native Waters - Dan McCool

Negotiating Tribal Water Rights: Fulfilling Promises in the Arid West - B. Colby, J.E. Thorson and S. Britton

New Courses for the Colorado River - G. Weatherford and F.L. Brown (eds.)

Overtapped Oasis- M. Reisner and S. Bates

Phil Swing and Boulder Dam - Beverley B. Moeller

The Politics of Water in Arizona - Dean Mann

Red Delta: Fighting for Life at the End of the Colorado River - Charles Bergman

River No More – Phillip Fradkin

Rivers of Empire: Water Aridity, and the Growth of the American West - Donald Worster

Silver Fox of the Rockies – Daniel Tyler

A Story that Stands Like a Dam – Russell Martin

Two-Mile Time Machine - Richard B. Alley A very good overview of the Earth's climate system by a well-known paleoclimatologist at Penn State His data comes from the 100,000-year record in Greenland's ice cores

Water and the West: The Colorado River Compact and the Politics of Water in the American West – Norris Hundley

War for the Colorado River - Vol 1: The California-Arizona Controversy, and Vol 2: Above Lee's Ferry - The Upper Basin - John Upton Terrell