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The Salton Sea An Account of Harriman's Fight with the Colorado River (1917)

The Salton Sea An Account of Harriman's Fight with the Colorado River (1917)

George Kennan

ASIN: B00WC90KGQ

Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC

Pages: 140

"The engineering accident that...formed the Salton Sea has been chronicled in detail...refer to the lively account by Kennan." - Birds of the Salton Sea (2003)"Kennan presented...Harriman's role in a favorable light in 'The Salton Sea.'" - Salt Dreams: Land and Water in Low-down California (2001)"Virtually the entire river then poured into the valley creating a large new lake in the Salton Sink." - E.H. Harriman: Master Railroader (2003)What caused nearly the entire Colorado River to flow into the Salton Sink, creating the Salton Sea? Who was to blame for this disaster? Was it the wealthy railroad tycoon E.H. Harriman who had been meddling around the Colorado River or was he instead a hero who saved California?Journalist and world explorer George Kennan (1845–1924) gives full and lively account of this ecological disaster in his 1917 book "The Salton Sea: An Account of Harriman's Fight ...

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