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Further Reading Books and articles Adams, Jr., John A. Damming the Colorado. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1990. Banks, Jimmy, and John E. Babcock. Corralling the Colorado. Austin: Eakin Press, 1988. Baumgartner, Dorcas, William C. Foster, and Jack Jackson. Frontier River: Exploration and Settlement of the Colorado River. Austin: Lower Colorado River Authority, 1997. Bedichek, Roy. Karánkaway Country. Garden City, N.Y., 1950. Blackburn, Jim. The Book of Texas Bays. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. Brune, Gunnar. Springs of Texas. vol. I. Arlington: Gunnar Brune, 1981. Burnett, Johnathan. Flash Floods in Texas. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. Caro, Robert A. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power. New York: Vintage Books, 1982. Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. Clay, Comer. “The Colorado River Raft,” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, vol. LII, no. 4 (1949): 410–426. Duhigg, Charles. “Cleansing the Air at the Expense of Waterways,” New York Times, October 13, 2009. Espinosa, Isidro Félix de. The Ramón Expedition: Espinosa’s Diary of 1716. Translated by Gabriel Tous. Texas Knights of Columbus Historical Commission, 1930. Foster, William C. Spanish Expeditions into Texas 1689–1768. Austin : University of Texas Press, 1995. Glennon, Robert. Water Follies: Groundwater Pumps and the Fate of America’s Fresh Waters. London: Island Press, 2002. ———. Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What To Do About It. London: Island Press, 2010. Goyne, Minetta Altgelt. A Life among the Texas Flora: Ferdinand Lindheimer’s Letters to George Engelmann. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1991. Graves, John. Goodbye to a River. New York: Curtis Publishing Company, 1959. Johnson, Lyndon B. “A Program for All the People in the Colorado River Valley: To be Undertaken by their servant The Lower Colorado River Authority.” Letter to Orville Buttery, LCRA Director, 1947. Joutel, Henri. The La Salle Expedition to Texas: The Journal of Henri Joutel, 1684–1687. Edited and with an introduction by William C. Foster. Translated by Johanna S. Warren. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1998. Leopold, Luna B. Water, Rivers, and Creeks. Berkeley: University of California, 1997. Long, Walter E. Flood to Faucet. 1956. Lower Colorado River Authority. “LCRA Business Plan: Fiscal Year 2010.” http://www.lcra.org/about/overview/financial/business_plan .html and http://www.lcra.org/library/media/public/ docs/business_plan/FY2010LCRABusPlan.pdf (accessed June 26, 2009). Morris, Jane Anne. “Board and Staff: An Ethnography of the Lower Colorado River Authority of Texas.” Phd diss., University of Texas at Austin, 1987. McKinstry, William C. “The Colorado Navigator, Containing a Full Description of the Bed and Banks of the Colorado River, from the City of Austin to Its Mouth.” Printed at the Colorado Gazette, 1840. Olmsted, Frederick Law. A Journey through Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1978. Outwater, Alice. Water: A Natural History. New York: Basic Books, 1996. Pearce, Fred. When the Rivers Run Dry. Boston: Beacon Press, 2006. Peña, Juan Antonio de la and Rev. Peter Forrestal. Peña’s Diary of the Aguayo Expedition. Austin: Distributed under the auspices of the Texas Knights of Columbus Historical Commission. 1934. 212 Further Reading Postel, Sandra, and Brian Richter. Rivers for Life: Managing Water for People and Nature. Washington: Island Press, 2003. Roemer, Ferdinand. Roemer’s Texas: 1845 to 1847. Translated by Oswald Mueller. Austin: Eakin Press, 1983. Sansom, Andrew. Water in Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. Scanlan, John, interview with David Todd and David Weisman, October 14, 2003. The Texas Legacy Project. Conservation History Association of Texas. http://www.texaslegacy.org/bb/ transcripts/scanlanjohntxt.html (Accessed October, 1, 2009). Schmidly, David J. Texas Natural History: A Century of Change. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2002. Solís, Fray Gaspar José de, and Margaret Kenney, “Diary of a Visit of Inspection of the Texas Missions Made by Fray Gaspar José de Solís.” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. July, 1931. http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101092 : accessed February 09, 2011. Spearing, Darwin. Roadside Geology of Texas. Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 1991. Starcke, Max. “Water Conservation in the Lower Colorado River Valley.” Speech presented to the Governor’s Water Board Conference , July, 1948. Austin: Lower Colorado River Authority. Thompson, Mary Albers, and Madolyn Frasier. The Valley between the Colorado and the Pedernales. Spicewood Springs: Spicewood Area Historical Focus Group, circa 1996. Weniger, Del. The Explorers’ Texas, Volume 1: The Lands and Waters. Austin: Eakin Press, 1984. ———. The Explorers’ Texas, Volume 2: The Animals They Found. Austin: Eakin Press, 1997. Wilbarger, John Wesley. Indian Depredations in Texas. Austin: Eakin...

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