Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Barrier to Settlement
2. The Western Irrigation Movement and the Great Plains
3. Water Resources of the Southern High Plains
4. The Adaptation of Pump Irrigation Technology to the Great Plains
5. Land Speculators and the Beginnings of Irrigation on the Texas High Plains, 1900–1910
6. The Land Speculator as a Promoter and Developer of Irrigation on the Texas High Plains
7. Early Failure of Pump Irrigation, 1910–1920
8. Dust Bowl, New Deal, and the Revival of Irrigation
9. The Expansion of Irrigation, 1940–1960
10. The Problem of Ground-Water Conservation
11. The Contemporary High Plains
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

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Donald E. Green received his Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma and has taught at Central State University in Oklahoma.

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