| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.3

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Book Review

High and Dry: The Texas-New Mexico Struggle for the Pecos River. By G. Emlen Hall. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. xii + 291 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. $39.95.)

For years, discussion of western water law was dominated by instrumentalist concerns over what water law regime was most appropriate to the western environment, with some favoring prior appropriation and others opting to define water as a public good to be governed by state-appointed experts. Those who still believe in such solutions to western water issues may think differently after reading G. Emlen Hall's account of the legal and engineering struggle over the Pecos River.

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