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Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : changes and choices -- pt. I. Frontierland to Fantasyland -- 1. In grizzly days -- 2. Save the cows...horses off the cliffs -- 3. Gold fever : sick forefathers -- 4. Statehood, state hoods, and state laws -- 5. R & R : railroads and real estate, citrus and sunshine -- pt. II. Water choices (1)--Eastern Sierra water -- 6. Melodrama on the right side of California -- 7. Life in the big city--how did they get away with it? -- 8. Did they see where they were going? -- 9. What if the Los Angeles Aqueduct had never been built? -- pt. III. Water choices (2)--Colorado River water -- 10. "And lest our city shrivel and die..." -- 11. Boom! Postwar, postaqueduct arrivals -- 12. People fumes : just don't inhale -- pt. IV. Water choices (3)--Northern California water -- 13. The Northern end of the pipe -- 14. Too much is not enough -- 15. Sprawling gridlock -- pt. V. Tomorrowland -- 16. Today's choice (1) : who needs farms? -- 17. Today's choice (2) : the environment--has Mono Lake really been saved? -- 18. Visualizing tomorrow--just say no to water? -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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