Spanish Water, Anglo Water : Early Development in San Antonio.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781603443258
- Water rights -- Texas -- San Antonio -- History
- Water-supply -- Social aspects -- Texas -- San Antonio -- History
- Water-supply -- Political aspects -- Texas -- San Antonio -- History
- Water -- Texas -- San Antonio -- Distribution -- Management -- History
- Land tenure -- Texas -- San Antonio -- History
- Irrigation canals and flumes -- Texas -- San Antonio -- History
- San Antonio (Tex.) -- History
- 333.91009764/351
- HD1695.S35 -- P676 2009eb
Intro -- CONTENT S -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 DROUGHTS AND DELUGES -- 2 THE COUNTRY OF 1,10 0 SPRINGS -- 3 EYEWITNESS REPORTSOF GOD'S WATER -- 4 MISSIONS SET TLE SAN ANTONIO -- 5 ACEQUIA TECHNOLOGY -- 6 DERECHO INDIANO-LAWWITH JUS TICE -- 7 WATER, LAND, AND WORK -- 8 CONFLIC T, COOPERATION,AND COMPROMISE -- 9 NEW PEOPLE, OLD LAWS -- 10 ACEQUIAS OVERWHELMED -- 11 THE FIRST WATER WORKS COMPANY -- 12 WATER-POLITICIANS' "GOLD" -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Porter offers a meticulous chronicling of the origins and often-contentious development of water rights in San Antonio from its Spanish settlement through the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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