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Tables of Contents for Drowning the Dream
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction: Changes and Choices
xiii
Part I: Frontierland to Fantasyland
1
56
In Grizzly Days
3
8
Save the Cows...Horses Off the Cliffs
11
10
Gold Fever: Sick Forefathers
21
14
Statehood, State Hoods, and State Laws
35
10
R & R: Railroads and Real Estate, Citrus and Sunshine
45
12
Part II: Water Choices (1)---Eastern Sierra Water
57
40
Melodrama on the Right Side of California
59
10
Life in the Big City---How Did They Get Away with It?
69
10
Did They See Where They Were Going?
79
10
What If the Los Angeles Aqueduct Had Never Been Built?
89
8
Part III: Water Choices (2)---Colorado River Water
97
38
``And Lest Our City Shrivel and Die...''
99
14
Boom! Postwar, Postaqueduct Arrivals
113
14
People Fumes: Just Don't Inhale
127
8
Part IV: Water Choices (3)---Northern California Water
135
36
The Northern End of the Pipe
137
12
Too Much Is Not Enough
149
14
Sprawling Gridlock
163
8
Part V: Tomorrowland
171
38
Today's Choice (1): Who Needs Farms?
173
10
Today's Choice (2): The Environment---Has Mono Lake Really Been Saved?
183
10
Visualizing Tomorrow---Just Say No to Water?
193
16
Bibliography
209
14
Index
223