Water, A History of Las Vegas, Florence Lee Jones
and John F. Cahlan (Las Vegas Water District, 1975) bibliography
TD 224 N8 J67
Water in the West, J.B. Smallwood, ed. Articles
from a special 1983 issue of the Journal of the West bibliography
TC 423.6 W36 1983
A River too far: the past and future of the arid west,
Joseph Finkhouse and Mark Crawford, Nevada Humanities
Committee, 1991 bibliography TD 218 R58x 1991
Rivers of Empire: water, aridity, and the growth of
the American West, Donald Worster, New York : Pantheon
Books, 1986, c1985 bibliography HC 107 A17 W67 1986; reprinted
Oxford University Press 1992.
Groundwater management in the West, Jeffrey S.
Ashley and Zachary A. Smith
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 1999 TD223.6
.A86 1999
The sanitary city : urban infrastructure in America
from colonial times to the present, Martin V. Melosi,
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000 TD223
.M45 2000
Report upon the Colorado River of the West : explored
in 1857 and 1858 by Joseph C. Ives, Washington: Government
Printing Office, 1861 (pt.2 Hydrographic Report)
F788 U59
Clark County 208 Water Quality Management Plan (drafts
and supplementary material in Special Collections) TD
224 N3 C46
Water for southern Nevada, prepared for State
of Nevada, Division of Water Planning ; prepared by URS
Company [and] Converse Ward Davis Dixon in cooperation
with Las Vegas Valley Water District [Carson City, Nev.]
: The Division, [1982] TD225.L3 U78
Building Hoover Dam : an oral history of the Great
Depression / Andrew J. Dunar and Dennis McBride Reno,
Nev. : University of Nevada Press, [2001?], c1993 TC557.5.H6
D86 2001
Hoover Dam : an American adventure, Joseph E.
Stevens
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1988 TC557.5.H6
S74 1988
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Hoover Dam
UNLV Libraries Special Collections has the largest collection
of materials related to Hoover Dam in the country. Publications,
maps, photographs, photograph albums, film, video, manuscripts,
diaries, oral histories related to the planning and construction
of the dam.
Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Corporate archives of Union Pacific Railroad's Las Vegas
operations, records of the Las Vegas Land and Water Company,
a subsidiary of the railroad. 1905-1954. 60 boxes. water
rights, water lines, mains, wells, sewers, land subdivision,
sale of lots, improvements, conservation, blueprints, drawings,
maps. Also Engineering and Industrial Development for planning
and construction of water facilities.
Inventory available.
Colorado River Commission
The Colorado River Commission is the Nevada state government
agency charged with acquiring, managing and protecting all
of Nevada's water and hydroelectric resources from the Colorado
River. The CRC collected material which was kept in a reference
library as a resource for the legal department in its work
on the ongoing litigation stemming from the Supreme Court
case Arizona vs. California, which arose over issues related
to the division of the resources created by the Dam. The
collection is comprised of legal records and working files,
regulations, technical reports and studies, Nevada CRC minutes,
and copies of documents from the CRCs of the Colorado River
states and copies of documents from the original agreements
and contracts including correspondence from the Los Angeles
Water and Power Company from the 1930s. Special Collections
also has a complete set of the bound records of Arizona
vs. California, including court records, briefs, exhibits,
actions, pre-conference reports, arguments and hearings.
The exhibits comprise supporting documentation provided
by other states party to the case including Nevada, Utah,
and the United States, as well as California and Arizona.
Among the documents included are a Las Vegas Paiute Briefing
Paper - Paiute Water claims, which include copies of the
original Helen Stewart contract with the United States giving
use of Paiute Indian lands and claims. (inventory available)
Sierra Club
A grass-roots advocacy organization monitoring, promoting
and educating the public on environmental issues. The archives
of the Southern Nevada Group of the Toiyabe Chapter of the
Sierra Club. Reports, plans, documents, environmental impact
statements from all agencies operating in southern Nevada
managing or studying natural resources or proposing projects
which impact the environment. (inventory available)
State Legislators
Special Collections houses the papers of several Nevada
State legislators most extensively those of State Senators
Thomas Hickey, John Vergiels, and Jean Ford, whose files
contain voluminous files on environmental and natural resource
issues which were subjects of state legislation and review.
(inventories available)
U.S. Senator Howard Cannon.
Cannon was an influential Democratic Senator from 1958-
1983. His papers and legislative files contain much information
concerning environmental issues in Nevada related to Federal
programs and legislation. (printed finding aid available)
U.S. Senator Chic Hecht.
One term Senator 1983-88. (inventory available)
Gilbert Buck Papers.
Gilbert Buck was a prominent local land surveyor, engineer
and real estate broker. He surveyed and engineered a number
of master sewage plans and water treatment and waste facilities
in the Las Vegas Valley. He also conducted water and drainage
studies for a wide variety of building sites and private
developments,
as well as general site and mining surveys. His papers contain
reports, studies, planning documents, with a large collection
of maps and surveys.
Chester Longwell Papers.
Chester Longwell (1887-1975) was a prominent and distinguished
geologist, Chair of the department of Geology at Yale, staff
member of the U.S. Geological Survey, and research associate
at Stanford University. The field work he conducted throughout
his life in southern Nevada provided the basis for a
long list of text books, monographic studies, articles and
reports that established him as the outstanding authority
on the geology of southern Nevada. In 1934 he conducted
a geological survey of the entire Boulder reservoir flood
area now covered by Lake Mead, to record the formations
and structures, which would be covered by the lake. He later
mapped the floor of the Davis Dam reservoir. He donated
his collection of personal papers to UNLV in 1975 shortly
before his death. His papers includes a series of his original
field notebooks, correspondence, drafts of articles and
lectures, reprints and off-prints, maps, photographs, and
a collection of books from his personal library.
A.J. Shaver Collection
1925-1964. Shaver was a member of the Colorado River Conference
and Commission. Files include Boulder Canyon project/ Colorado
River Development, Colorado River Conference, Colorado River
Commission, Lower Colorado River Valley Land Use Advisory
Committee: congressional bills, proceedings, reports
Florence and John Cahlan Papers
Florence Lee Jones [Cahlan] was a reporter and John Cahlan
an editor for the Las Vegas Review Journal. Florence was
also a freelance writer. Both were interested in local
history and were active in a number of civic organizations.
Among their papers are Florence Lee Jones' research notes
for Water: A History of Las Vegas, including transcriptions
of files from the Las Vegas Land and Water Co. (1905-1954)
and Las Vegas Valley Water District (1948-1972) which include
minutes, statements, correspondence, and reports. (T- 128
Box 24)
John Wittwer Papers (Agricultural Extension Division)
John Wittwer was the District Agricultural Extension Agent
for Clark County who came to southern Nevada in 1921 after
having worked as an agent in his native Utah. The Cooperative
Extension Service was established by the federal Smith-Lever
Act of 1914, to stimulate farm production. It was a cooperative
program between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and state
agricultural colleges: in Nevada, the University of Nevada
(Reno) Agricultural Extension Division. Each county was
organized into county Farm Bureaus through whom the extension
programs were conducted. Activities included instruction
and demonstrations for farmers, housewives, youth, ranchers
and stockmen. Encouraging home projects in gardening, sewing,
livestock raising and other domestic projects. The extension
service organized what later became 4-H Clubs throughout
the state. Most counties had their own resident agent. The
Extension Service was technically administered through the
University's School of Agriculture and its Dean, but under
its politically ambitious directors, it became a de facto
independent agency.
Wittwer served as county agent through 1951 and his primary
concerns in southern Nevada were soil improvement, flood
control, water storage, drainage and irrigation, livestock
development and the establishment of the dairy industry
in southern Nevada. Wittmer also assisted in organizing
and establishing the first CCC camp in Southern Nevada,
in Kyle Canyon. Surveys plans and specifications for flood
control were turned over to the Engineering Division of
the Forest Service, and CCC camps were used on flood control
operations in Moapa, Virgin, Panaca and Pahranagat Valleys.
The collection consists of the annual reports of the Division
in southern Nevada including Clark, Lincoln and Nye Counties.
The reports contain detailed information about the activities
of the Division and include many photographs documenting
the various projects including a typescript Report with
photographs of Flood Control Work in Southern Nevada Winter
of 1933 and 1934 by the Civilian Conservation Corps. In
addition the collection contains separate reports about
specific projects and publications concerning flood control
and irrigation, critical factors for agriculture in southern
Nevada. The collection spans the years from 1921 (when Wittmer
became agent) to 1960 (complete series of annual reports)
with additional materials up to 1966. The reports cover
the agencies activities, as well as the activities of the
County Farm Bureaus.
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Special Collections
has a significant collection concerning the exploration
of the American west, southwest, Nevada and Southern Nevada.
This collection contains the original published reports
of the great 19th century western surveys conducted by the
U.S. government, travel accounts and diaries as well as
the great series of maps and atlases that accompanied the
published accounts. These reports covered all fields of
19th century natural science and contained artist renderings
of the region's physical characteristics as well as its
flora and fauna. The perceived potential for the agricultural
development of the west prompted considerable study of the
region's hydrogeology and the feasibility of irrigation.
These reports were published voluminously in the USGS annual
reports and in the official reports of specific expeditions.
Pacific Railroad
Survey, 1855-60
Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most
practicable and economical route for a railroad from the
Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean / made under the
direction of the secretary of war, in 1853-[6] .. Washington
: A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer [etc.], 1855-60 F593 .U58
Colorado River, 1857-8
United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers. Report
upon the Colorado River of the West : explored in 1857 and
1858 by Joseph C. Ives Washington: Govt. Print. Office.
1861 F788 U59
Arid Regions,
1879
Powell, John Wesley, Report on the lands of the arid region
of the United States : with a more detailed account of the
lands of Utah. With maps / by J. W. Powell
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1879 2d ed HD1671.U5
P68 1879
Great Salt Lake,
1853
United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers Exploration
and survey of the valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah,
including a reconnoissance of a new route through the Rocky
Mountains. By Howard Stansbury, captain, Corps topographical
engineers, U.S. Army. Printed by order of House of representatives
of the United States
Washington, R. Armstrong, public printer, 1853 F826 .U559
Mexican Boundary
Survey, 1846-7
Notes of a military reconnoissance from Fort Leavenworth,
in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, including parts
of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila rivers. By W. H. Emory,
brevet-major, corps topographical engineers. Made in 1846-7,
with the advanced guard of the "Army of the west."
Washington, Wendell and Van Benthuysen, printer, 1848
Map of the United
States and their territories between the Mississippi and
the Pacific Ocean and part of Mexico / compiled from surveys
made under the order of W.H. Emory; and from the maps of
the Pacific Rail Road, General Land Office, and the Coast
Survey; projected and drawn under the supervision of Lt.
N. Michler, by Thomas Jekyll ; engraved by Selmar Siebert;
UNLV Spec Maps; G4050 1857 .J44
Surveys west
of the 100th Meridian,1874-5
Report upon United States Geographical surveys west of the
one hundredth meridian / in charge of First Lieut.Geo. M.
Wheeler ... under the direction of the chief of engineers,
U.S. Army. Published by authority of ... the secretary of
war in accordance with acts of Congress of June 23, 1874,
and February 15, 1875. In seven volumes and one supplement,
accompanied by one topographic and one geologic atlas ..
Washington, D.C. : Government Printing Office, 1875-89 v.
1-7, Appendix F, 2 atlases
QE 74 W6
Geological Exploration
of the Fortieth Parallel, 1867-69
Report of the geological exploration of the fortieth parallel
/ made by order of the secretary of war according to the
acts of congress of March 2, 1867, and March 3, 1869, under
the direction of ...A.A.Humphreys, chief of engineers, by
Clarence King, U.S. geologist, [Washington : Government
Printing Office, 1870-80] Atlas QE74 .K5
Freemont's Expedition
to the Rocky Mountains, 1842-4
Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains
in the year 1842 : and to Oregon and north California in
the years 1843-44 / by Brevet Capt. J.C. Fremont ; under
the orders of Col. J.J. Abert, Chief of the Topographical
Bureau ; printed by order of the House of Representatives.
Washington : Blair and Rives, Printers, 1845 F592 .F83 1845
Map of an exploring
expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842 and to
Oregon & north California in the years 1843-44 / by
Brevet Capt. J.C. Fremont of the Corps of Topographical
Engineers under the orders of Col. J.J. Abert, Chief of
the Topographical Bureau ; lith. by E. Weber Co., Baltimore,
Md [Washington, D.C. : U.S. Senate, 1845]
UNLV Spec Maps G4051.S12 1844 .F742 |
The collection
of 19th printed material is augmented by the Libraries'
extensive microform collection. For subject access see http://www.library.unlv.edu/collections/micro/microres/microsearch.php
Project histories
and reports of Reclamation Bureau projects, 1902-25 National
Archives (M96, 141 reels) TC 23.6 A57x 1950a
Western Americana: frontier history of the Trans-Mississippi
West, 1550-1900. Research Publications F 591 W4633x
Over 7,000 titles
selected primarily from the collections of the Beineke Library
at Yale and the Newberry Library in Chicago compose this
collection. These printed sources, ranging from broadsides
to congressional reports, cover the discovery, exploration,
settlement and development of North America from the Mexican
border to the Arctic Ocean and the Mississippi Valley to
the Pacific Ocean. Some of the major topics included are:
exploration, contact between Indians and whites, the fur
trade, the Texas Revolution, the role of the Hudson's Bay
Co. in Canada, the mining frontier, the Mormon experience,
the railroads, and the sheep and cattle
Letters received by John Wesley Powell, director of the
Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain
region, 1869-79 National Archives (M156, 10 reels)
QE 74 L47x 1869a
Letters received
by the United States Geological Survey, 1879-1901 National
Archives (M590, 118 reels) QE 76 G46x 1964a
Letters sent
by the United States Geological Survey, 1879-1895 National
Archives (M152, 29 reels) QE76 G45x 1949a
Nevada, State
Engineer, annual reports, 1903-1930 Nevada State Library
and Archives TA 24 N3 A1 1991
Nevada, State Engineer-water claims & laws, annual reports,
1905-1930 Nevada State Library and Archives TC 424 N3 A558
1991
Biennial report
of the State Water Commissioner to the Governor of Arizona
Phoenix, Ariz: The Commissioner, TC 824 A6 A4
This report highlights
the irrigation and legislation of the water supply in Arizona
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