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Sacramento History Journal Vol VI

  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • "Flooding in the Sacramento Valley: A Seething and Boiling Force that Threatens the Monuments of our Enterprise" by James E. Henley
  • "Early Reclamation and Abandonment of the Central Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta" by John Thompson
  • "Levee Troubles: The Cost of Making the Sacramento Valley Into an Agricutlrual Giant" by Karen M. O'Neill
  • "E-mails from Katrina: Comparing the Parallel Experiences of 1955's Flood-Ravaged Yuba City & Marysville with 2005's New Orleans" by Anastasia (Wolfe) Griffin; Photo Essay by James E. Henley
  • "Intelligent Engineering: William Hammond Hall and the State Engineering Department" by Jeff Crawford and Jessica Herrick
  • "A Swamplander's Vengeance: R.S. Carey and the Failure to Reclaim Putah Sink, 1855-1895" by David J. Vaught
  • "From Swampland to Farmland: Reclamation and Irrigation in the Natomas Basin" by Carson Hendricks & Lisa C. Prince
  • "Water as Sacramento's Natural Advantage" by Steven M. Avella
  • Water: Our History and Future: Color Section
  • "Dispatching the Products of the Soil: The Fruit and Grain Trade on the Sacramento River" by Bill Stritzel
  • "Hydropower in California" by Steve Hubbard
  • "'The Water Tasted Like Hell": Water Quality Reminiscenses by a Former Sacramento City Manager" by Edwin A. Fairbairn
  • "Cleansing Sacramento of Miasma and Filth" by Marvin Brienes
  • "Turning Mud into Liquid Gold: A History of Sacramento's Water Supply" by Kevin Carunchio
  • "The Architecture of Water in Sacramento" by Paula Boghosian
  • "Taking the Plunge: Water Recreation in the Sacramento Area" by Marcia A. Eymann
  • Forum: Two Opinions on Auburn Dam:
    "Auburn Dam: Our Future" by Roger Canfield, Auburn Dam Council
    "Auburn Dam: Unnecessary and Too Expensive" by Gary Estes, Protect American River Canyons
  • Authors and Contributors

  • Photos © used with permission of CSH