A

Adams, John T., 280

Adams, William H., 230–32

Agriculture: Colorado River basin development of, 113–14; economic development and, 6, 19; environmental impacts of reservoirs on, 291–92; interstate water compacts and, 127–28; irrigated, 36–37, 305n33; Kinkaid Act and, 147; Non-Partisan League and, 128; prior appropriation and, 51–53

Alamo Canal, 111

All-American Canal: Arizona challenges to, 263–65; Bureau of Reclamation support of, 235, 321n71; California and the, 221; Colorado River basin development and the, 117; Imperial Valley and the, 113–14

American Shorthorn Breeders' Association, 110; See also Livestock

Ammons, Elias, 93, 317n4

Anthony, Susan B., 42–43

Apportionment, equitable: . See Equitable apportionment

Appropriation, priority of: . See Priority doctrine

Arentz, Samuel S., 181

Arizona: Central Arizona Project, 351n82; challenges of Colorado River Compact, 263–65; Compact ratification, 204–7, 276–77; diversions and, 167–68; map of, 168; resistance to compact agreement, 192–95, 344n114; resistance to two-basin plan, 189–91, 334n84; Salt River and, 17; six-state compact and, 205–6, 223–24; three-state compact and, 204

Arizona Republican, 212

Arkansas River: basin map, 7, 92; compact negotiations, 202, 244–46; compact violations, 293, 346n18; Kansas v. Colorado and the, 75–76

Army Corps of Engineers, 17

Aspinall-Gunnison Project, 357n34

B

Babbitt, Bruce, 358n58

Ballinger, Richard A., 96, 318n21

Bamberger, Simon, 116

Bannister, L. Ward: conflict with Delph, 213–18, 226–29; relationship with Delph, 172, 234, 267; Rio Grande Compact and, 252; support of Swing-Johnson bill, 205, 231–34

Bennett, Martha Allen: . See Carpenter, Martha Bennett

Bien, Morris, 198, 221

Big Thompson River, 52–53; See also Colorado-Big Thompson Project

Black Canyon, 150, 221, 336n2

BLM: . See Bureau of Land Management (BLM)

Bonfils, Frederick, 233–34, 343n106

Boulder Canyon: Fall-Davis Report and, 150; League of the Southwest and, 116–17; Reclamation Service interest in, 113, 140

Boulder Canyon Dam: . See Hoover Dam

Boulder Canyon Project Act: . See Hoover Dam

Boulder Dam: . See Hoover Dam

Boulder River, 52–53

Boyd, David, 50–51

Boyle, Emmett D., 129, 166, 170–71

Bradfield, George H., 288

Breitenstein, Jean, 276

Brewer, David, 17–18, 75, 78

Brown, Charles Wayland, 255

Bull, George M., 169, 173

Bureau of Indian Affairs, 197–98

Bureau of Land Management (BLM), 273–74

Bureau of Reclamation: Central Arizona Project and the, 351n82; Colorado-Big Thompson Project, 268–71; Colorado River Storage Project, 350n65; criticism of, 224–25; Elwood Mead and the, 219–20; North Platte River Compact and, 255–56; Rio Grande Compact and, 252; state sovereignty and the, 75, 225–26; Swing-Johnson legislation and the, 235; See also Newlands Act of 1902; Reclamation Service

Burges, Richard F., 248–50

Bursum, H. O., 133, 135–36

C

Cache la Poudre River: diversions, 15–16, 77–78; prior appropriation and the, 51–52; transbasin diversions and the, 258–60; Union Colony and, 4, 32; water district establishment and the, 52–53; See also Laramie River; Wyoming v. Colorado

Caddoa Reservoir, 346n11

Caldwell, Fred S., 216

Caldwell, R. E., 129, 183, 188

California: Boulder Canyon Dam and, 140–42, 221; Central Arizona Project and, 351n82; challenge to Compact, 215–16; diversions and, 167–68; economic development, 111–12; equitable apportionment and, 290–91; League of the Southwest and, 116–18; six-state compact and, 217–19, 223–24, 231, 235; three-state compact and, 204; See also Imperial Valley; Los Angeles, CA; San Diego, CA

Cameron, Robert, 16

Camfield, Daniel A., 77, 121

Campbell, A. C., 139

Campbell, Thomas E., 131–33, 139, 167, 187

Canal No. 2: . See Ditch No. 2

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 138–39

Carpenter, Alfred Bennett, 56; geneaology of, 27–28; parental guidance of, 47–48

Carpenter, Alfred G., 88

Carpenter, Daniel, 30; death of, 55; geneaology of, 27–29; military service, 27, 41; on reclamation and irrigated agriculture, 121; temperance and, 27; Union Colony and, 32

Carpenter, Delphus (Delph) Emory: accomplishments, 22–23, 84, 101, 122, 162–63; character traits of, 26–27, 48–49, 64, 86–87, 165; death of, 278; education and early law practice, 57–64; "Father of the Colorado River Compact", 108, 206, 287, 289, 323n3; Hoover's praise of, 201; loss of position as commissioner, 23, 266–67, 307n64; marriage of, 64, 68, 160–62; Modern Woodmen of America (MWA) and, 68; parental guidance of, 23, 47–48, 55; philosophy of, 294–98; political candidacy of, 68, 74–75; politics and, 14–15, 48–49, 60, 64, 84–86, 88–89; recognition and awards, 212, 241, 276, 279, 286–89, 323n3; relationship with his family, 159–62; as the "Silver Fox of the Rockies", 21–22, 125, 298–99; State Senate responsibilities, 16, 76–84; as the "Water Oracle of Greeley", 49, 322n93; See also (financial problems of); (health problems of); (photographs of)

Carpenter, Delphus (Delph) Emory (financial problems of): Colorado government and, 178–79; Crow Creek Ranch and, 126–27, 159, 354n4; family and legal practice, 72–73; Greeley-Poudre Irrigation District and, 84, 96–97; health concerns and, 234; land purchases and, 68–70; loss of position as commissioner, 279–80

Carpenter, Delphus (Delph) Emory (health problems of): declining abilities and Christian Science healing, 243–44; declining abilities and work, 21–23, 228–30, 253–54, 347n33; health and financial concerns, 234; influenza and, 111, 329n4; Parkinson's Disease and, 49, 111, 133, 158–59, 203; work and financial concerns, 79, 100–101, 158–59

Carpenter, Delphus (Delph) Emory (photographs of): as an attorney, 69, 145; Colorado River Compact Commission (CRCC), 129; in the Colorado Senate, 81; on a coyote hunt, 71; irrigating the family farm, 61; as a law student, 62; in the Rawah Wilderness Area, 164; as a young boy, 56, 58

Carpenter, Donald A.: education and law practice, 280, 355n5; geneaology of, 28; photographs of, 281; relationship with father, 101, 159–60, 230; Union Colony House and, 40n

Carpenter, Doris A., 310n43

Carpenter, Farrington R., 273–74

Carpenter, Fred George: Carpenter family history by, 310n43; geneaology of, 27–28; parental guidance of, 47–48

Carpenter, Leroy S.: courtship and marriage, 33–35, 37–40, 44–47, 308n16; death of, 230, 310n43; geneaology of, 27–28; move to Colorado, 33; on reclamation and irrigated agriculture, 16, 121; relationship with Delph, 23, 55–57; religious beliefs of, 44; Union Colony and, 36–37; water rights and, 48; women's rights and, 42–43

Carpenter, Louis G., 94, 114

Carpenter, Martha Bennett: courtship and marriage, 37–40, 44–47; courtship and marriage of, 33–35; geneaology of, 27–28; Methodist Missionary Society and, 44; religious beliefs of, 44; temperance and, 43–44; Union Colony and, 355n11; women's rights and, 42–43