Research Catalog

Title

Silver fox of the Rockies : Delphus E. Carpenter and western water compacts / Daniel Tyler ; foreword by Donald J. Pisani.

Author

Tyler, Daniel

Publication

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors

Carpenter, Delph

Description

xxi, 392 p. : ill., maps, ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Delphus E. Carpenter (1877-1951) was Colorado's commissioner of interstate streams during a time when water rights were a legal battleground for western states. A complex, unassuming man as rare and cunning in politics and law as the elusive silver fox of the Rocky Mountain West, Carpenter boldly relied on negotiation instead of endless litigation to forge agreements among states first, before federal intervention. In Silver Fox of the Rockies, Daniel Tyler tells Carpenter's story and that of the great interstate water compacts he helped create. Those compacts, produced in the early twentieth century, have guided not only agricultural use of the water but urban growth and development throughout much of the American West to this day."--Jacket.

Subject

• Carpenter, Delph
• Lawyers > Colorado > Biography
• Water rights > United States > History

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-373) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Lineage and love letters -- Education and the beginnings of a career -- The making of an Interstate Streams Commissioner -- The Colorado River Compact: Phase I -- The Colorado River Compact: Phase II -- The struggle for compact ratification -- Last years as Interstate Streams Commissioner -- Vindication -- Carpenter and the compact legacy.

ISBN

0806135158 (hc. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002029137

OCLC

• 50339362
• SCSB-9934703

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library