WHAT YOU SEE IN CLEAR WATER

作者: Geoffrey O\\\'Gara 著

出版社: Random House US

出版时间: 2002-08

版次: 1

ISBN: 9780679735823

定价: 147.00

装帧: 平装

开本: 32开

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 285页

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>社会文化

　　For nearly a century, the Indians on the Wind RiverReservation in Wyoming have been battling their white farmerneighbors over the rights to the Wind River. What You See in ClearWater tells the story of this epic struggle, shedding light on theongoing conflict over water rights in the American West, one of themost divisive and essential issues in America today.

While lawyers argued this landmark case all the way to the U.S.Supreme Court, Geoffrey O’Gara walked the banks of the river withthe farmers, ranchers, biologists, and tribal elders who knew itintimately. Reading his account, we come to know the impoverishedShoshone and Arapaho tribes living on the Wind River Reservation,who believe that by treaty they control the water within thereservation. We also meet the farmers who have struggled fordecades to scratch a living from the arid soil, and who want todivert the river water to irrigate their lands. O’Gara’s empatheticportrayal of life in the West today, the historical texture hebrings to the land and its inhabitants, and the common humanity hefinds between hostile neighbors on opposite sides of the river makeWhat You See in Clear Water an unusually rich and rewardingbook. 　　A journalist and the author of A Long Road Home: Journeysthrough America's Present in Search of America's Past, GeoffreyO'Gara lives in Lander, Wyoming.

　　From the Trade Paperback edition.
内容简介:
　　For nearly a century, the Indians on the Wind RiverReservation in Wyoming have been battling their white farmerneighbors over the rights to the Wind River. What You See in ClearWater tells the story of this epic struggle, shedding light on theongoing conflict over water rights in the American West, one of themost divisive and essential issues in America today.

While lawyers argued this landmark case all the way to the U.S.Supreme Court, Geoffrey O’Gara walked the banks of the river withthe farmers, ranchers, biologists, and tribal elders who knew itintimately. Reading his account, we come to know the impoverishedShoshone and Arapaho tribes living on the Wind River Reservation,who believe that by treaty they control the water within thereservation. We also meet the farmers who have struggled fordecades to scratch a living from the arid soil, and who want todivert the river water to irrigate their lands. O’Gara’s empatheticportrayal of life in the West today, the historical texture hebrings to the land and its inhabitants, and the common humanity hefinds between hostile neighbors on opposite sides of the river makeWhat You See in Clear Water an unusually rich and rewardingbook.
作者简介:
　　A journalist and the author of A Long Road Home: Journeysthrough America's Present in Search of America's Past, GeoffreyO'Gara lives in Lander, Wyoming.

　　From the Trade Paperback edition.

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