Empowering the West: Electrical Politics Before FDR

by Jay L. Brigham and Jay Brigham

Book Overview

While electricity held considerable promise for residents of the American West throughout the 1920s, it did not come with the flip of a switch. That dream could not be realized until it was first determined who would manage the resources from which power was generated. Westerners were at the forefront of the debate over electric power development even before the construction of large, federally owned dams in the 1930s. At the heart of this debate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700609202
• ISBN13: 9780700609208
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"