Rivers in the Desert: William Mulholland

Publisher: Open Road Media
Year: 1992
Category: Fiction

⬇ Acquire This Volume

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Rivers in the Desert

📁 Rivers in the Desert

✍ Margaret Leslie Davis 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 Open Road Media 🌐 English

Rivers in the Desert is the quintessential American story. It follows the remarkable career of William Mulholland, the visionary who engineered the rise of Los Angeles as the greatest American city west of the Mississippi. He sought to transform the sparse and barren desert into an inhabitabl

William Mulholland and the Rise of Los A

📁 William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles

✍ Catherine Mulholland 📂 Library 📅 2000 🌐 English

40 b/w photographs, 7 maps. William Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of southern California's history. Mulholland, a self-taught engineer, was the chief architect of the Owens Valley Aqueduct-a project ranking in magnitude and daring with the P

William Mulholland and the Rise of Los A

📁 William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles

✍ Catherine Mulholland 📂 Library 📅 2000 🏛 University of California Press 🌐 English

<DIV>William Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of southern California's history. Mulholland, a self-taught engineer, was the chief architect of the Owens Valley Aqueduct--a project ranking in magnitude and daring with the Panama Canal--that broug

William Mulholland and the Rise of Los A

📁 William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles

✍ Catherine Mulholland 📂 Library 📅 2000 🏛 University of California Press 🌐 English

William Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of southern California's history. Mulholland, a self-taught engineer, was the chief architect of the Owens Valley Aqueduct—a project ranking in magnitude and daring with the Panama Canal—that brought w

Thirsty: William Mulholland, California

📁 Thirsty: William Mulholland, California Water, and the Real Chinatown

✍ Marc Weingarten 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 Rare Bird Books 🌐 English

Thirsty is an exploration of Los Angeles' storied history in regards to water. Starting with William Mullholland and his aqueducts, through the 1926 collapse of the St. Francis Dam, which killed hundreds, and on through to the profound implications Los Angeles' path has for today. Where Ma

The Desert Rider

📁 The Desert Rider

📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 Blackstone Publishing