I am researching the settlement of the American West in the late 18th
and early 19th century. Specifically, I am looking at the effect of
land use policy and water policy on the settlment patterns and
growth/shaping of western urban areas. I am having a hard time
finding online resources that relate these subjects. Please help. |
Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
15 Apr 2005 12:00 PDT
You've asked about such a broad topic that it's hard to even know where to begin.
Is there any way of narrowing the focus?
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
15 Apr 2005 12:27 PDT
Is this sort of thing helpful at all:
http://fox.rollins.edu/~jsiry/The%20Great%20Thirst.html
The Great Thirst, Californians and Water: A History.
Let us know.
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Clarification of Question by
burningman-ga
on
15 Apr 2005 13:05 PDT
I would like to use Colorado, maybe Arizona and Nevada and relate the
lack of environmental policy during the early 19th century (land and
water regulations) to the current trend of urban sprawl. This should
allow me also to correlate the idea of the "endless frontier" and of
endless resources to the origination of urban sprawl and rapid land
development in CO, AZ and NV (prior to the mass outomobile movement).
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
16 Apr 2005 13:38 PDT
burningman-ga,
While your project sounds intriguing, I don't think you'll find much
for the specific time period (late 1700-early 1800's) that you
mention.
Colorado didn't even official boundaries until the mid-1800's, and
there was not much European settlement out there at all until the
latter part of the 1800's.
Take a look at this timeline of Colorado history -- I suspect AZ and
NV are much the same:
http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/history/histchron.htm
and let me know if you might not be better off with some resource
materials from the later 1800's/early 1900's (or is that what you
meant to say in the first place?)
Let me know what you think.
pafalafa-ga
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Clarification of Question by
burningman-ga
on
16 Apr 2005 17:50 PDT
Sorry, that was a typo. I did mean the end of 1800 and the beginning of 1900.
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