Bøker av Norris Hundley

Extensively illustrated and carefully researched, Heavy Ground provides a compelling an account of how the St. Francis Dam came to be built, the reasons for its collapse, the heartbreak brought by the flood, efforts to restore the homes and landscape, and the political factors influencing investigations of the failure.

Tells how aboriginal Americans and then early Spanish and Mexican immigrants contrived to use and share the available water and how American settlers, arriving in ever-increasing numbers after the Gold Rush, transformed California into the home of the nation's preeminent water seekers.

An account of the numerous struggles - national, state, and local - that have occurred over western American water rights since the late 1800s.