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INTRODUCTION 1. Simon Rifkind oral history interview with Jack L. August, Jr., October 9 and 12, 1986, Ruidoso, New Mexico, author’s files. Special Master Rifkind provided two interviews, one prior to the event and one afterward on the return trip to Albuquerque airport. The Honorable Simon H. Rifkind was born June 5, 1901, in Meretz, Russia, immigrated to the United States in 1910, and was educated in New York City public schools. He attended City College of New York, where he received his B.S. in 1922 and graduated from Columbia Law School in 1925. He was in private practice in New York City from 1926–1930; administrative assistant to Robert Wagner, U.S. senator, from 1927–1933; returned to private practice in New York City from 1933–1941; appointed to U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, from 1941–1950; returned to private practice, 1950–1995, until he passed away on November 14, 1995. He was selected by the U.S. Supreme Court to serve as the special master in Arizona v California in 1955, after the first special master, George I. Haight, died suddenly. 2. Arizona v California et al., 373 U.S. 564, 565 (1963); Simon H. Rifkind, Special Master Report (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, December 5, 1960). 3. Rifkind, oral history with August, October 9, 1986. 4. Garret Hardin, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” Science, 162 (1968): 1243–1248. 5. U.S. Senator Jon Kyl, Press Release, “Lifeblood of the West,” August 14, 2006. 6. For a history of the Central Arizona Project see, Jack L. August, Jr., Vision in the Desert: Carl Hayden and Hydropolitics in the American Southwest (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1999); T. Richmond Johnson, The Central Arizona Project: 1918–1968 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1977), 110–124; John Fowles to David Rauch, July 25, 2003, Snell & Wilmer Office Files, Phoenix, Arizona. 7. Senator Jon Kyl, “Tribute to Mark Wilmer,” Arizona State Law Journal (1995), 411. 8. Three times prior to the 1952 filing Arizona had instituted actions in the Supreme Court concerning the Colorado River. Arizona v California, 283, U.S. 423, 51 S. Ct. 522, 75 L.Ed. 1154 (1931); Arizona v California, 292 U.S. 341, 54 S. Ct. 735, 778 L.ED. 1298 (1934); Arizona v California, 298, U.S. 558, 56 S.Ct. 848, 80 L.Ed. 1331 (1936). See also United States v Arizona, 295 U.S. 174, 55 S.Ct. 666, 79 L.Ed. 1371 (1935). The seven public agencies were the Palo Verde Irrigation District, Imperial Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, City of San Diego, and County of San Diego. 9. Robert G. Begam, interview with Jack L. August, Jr., November 28, 2006, Phoenix, Arizona, author’s files. 10. Mark Wilmer, “Arizona v California: A Statutory Construction Case,” Arizona Law Review 6 (1964): 40, 52, 58. Wilmer was quoting from Arizona’s “Amended and Supplemental Statement of Position” (August 5, 1957). 11. See, for example, Johnson, The Central Arizona Project, 115. 12. Laura and George Danieli to Mark Wilmer, June 4, 1963, Mark Wilmer Collection, Box 1, Folder 3, Arizona Historical Foundation (hereafter AHF), Hayden Library, Arizona State University, Tempe (hereafter ASU). NOTES CHAPTER ONE: MIDWEST TO SOUTHWEST 1. Gregory Randall to Jack L. August, Jr., February 2, 2005, author’s files; Richard Nelson Current, Wisconsin: A History (Champagne: University of Illinois Press, 2001). Both the Ringling Brothers’ “World’s Greatest Shows” and Barnum and Bailey’s “Greatest Show on Earth” originated in Wisconsin. So too, did the typewriter and Johnson’s Wax. Moreover, Wisconsin inventors contributed to the mechanization of American agriculture by developing harvesters, threshers, reapers, cultivators, and other machinery. 2. Mark Wilmer’s father began his career as a school teacher in Wisconsin and later farmed in the state of Washington. He returned to Wisconsin because his wife preferred Wisconsin. 3. Honey Creek was a predominantly Baptist community and though the Wilmers were practicing Catholics, there was little, if any, religious tension within the close-knit community. See Mark Bernard Wilmer, oral history interview with Zona Davis Lorig, September 8, 1994, Phoenix, Arizona, Arizona Historical Society (hereafter AHS); Mark Bernard Wilmer, oral history interview with James McNulty, Arizona Bar Foundation Oral History Project, October 25, 1988, AHS. 4. Wilmer interview with Zorig; Wilmer interview with McNulty. 5. Elizabeth Sexson to Jack L. August, Jr., July 6, 2006; Mark Bernard Wilmer, Jr., oral...

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