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Author Grace, Stephen, author.

Title The great divide / Stephen Grace ; photographs by Jim Havey.

Publication Info. Guilford, Connecticut : TwoDot, 2015.

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Location Call No. Status
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  333.91 GRACE    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  333.91 GRA    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  333.91 GRACE    Check Shelf
Description vi, 205 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 23 x 29 cm
Note "Written by Stephen Grace, the companion book to The Great Divide, a film by Havey Productions, will be a sweeping, magnificently illustrated story of Colorado water from the region's first inhabitants to the incoming settlers and developers to modern environmentalists"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Author's note -- Prologue -- Coping with scarcity : the first Coloradans -- Gold Rush and settlement : the origins of Colorado's water laws -- Abundance in a dry land : the rise of agriculture -- Dammed and diverted : harnessing Colorado's wild rivers -- Facing limits, finding connections : the environmental movement -- Crossing the great divide : from conflict to cooperation -- About the author and photographer.
Subject Water-supply -- Colorado -- History.
Colorado -- Environmental conditions -- History.
Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
Water-supply. (OCoLC)fst01172350
Colorado. (OCoLC)fst01210251
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Havey, Jim.
Added Title Companion to (work): Great divide (Motion picture)
ISBN 9781442247253 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
1442247258 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
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