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William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles Paperback - 2002
by Mulholland, Catherine
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Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of Southern California's history. In the first full-length biography of the water and civil engineer, his granddaughter provides insights into the triumphant completion of the Owens Valley Aqueduct and the San Francisquito Dam tragedy that ended his career. Archival photos. 7 maps.
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- Title William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles
- Author Mulholland, Catherine
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Revised ed.
- Condition New
- Pages 436
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
- Date 2002-05-06
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # 531ZZZ01KQNB_ns
- ISBN 9780520234666 / 0520234669
- Weight 1.43 lbs (0.65 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.14 x 1.01 in (23.11 x 15.60 x 2.57 cm)
- Reading level 1500
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Library of Congress subjects Mulholland, William, Water-supply - California - Los Angeles -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99048289
- Dewey Decimal Code 979.494
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"William Mulholland was a famed and infamous water and civil engineer, best known for two extraordinary moments in the environmental history of California, one a colossal success, the other an equally stunning failure. The first is the construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and the second is the building of the fated St. Francis Dam, which came crashing down in 1928. Catherine Mulholland deals with her grandfather's alpha and omega moments dispassionately and in detail. But in between those events are more than a decade in the life of the great engineer and potential politician, and we gain a rich profile of the entire era here. This is a richly detailed, well-written life of a critical figure in the history of Los Angeles and the modern American West. It is an important contribution."--William Deverell, author of Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad