| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.3

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Book Review

The Politics of Western Water: The Congressional Career of Wayne Aspinall. By Stephen C. Sturgeon. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002. xxii + 243 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00.)

Historians have long felt the need for a scholarly biography of Wayne Aspinall, chairman of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, 1959–1973. Stephen Sturgeon has set out to fill that gap with this careful and tightly-focused study of Aspinall's influence on Colorado and western water development. The book, which began life as a doctoral dissertation (1998) at the University of Colorado, is appropriately titled. Sturgeon locates Aspinall in the context of western Colorado and its need for federal water development, and—rather in the manner of Aspinall himself—allows nothing to distract him as he takes his reader through the politics of reclamation in Colorado. He is particularly good on such things as committee structure and procedure. It was obviously an impressive dissertation, based on wide archival research and supported by a bibliography more extensive than many books twice its size.

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