Silver Fox of the Rockies: Delphus E. Carpenter and Western Water Compacts

by Daniel Tyler

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806135158
• ISBN13: 9780806135151
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"