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Cadillac Desertby Marc Reisner
1986
Chapter 2The Red Queen
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The Red Queen
• “It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place”
• or … continuing development is needed in order to maintain your place.
• How does this fit here?
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Discussion
• How is this story told?• What are the main themes?
• We have seen some of these themes in Ch.1, What do they have to do with western water?
• What other choices did LA have?
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Early LA Settlement
Illustration XVII: Orange Pickers, Los Angeles, ca. 1895.Stereo, Kilburn. LC- USZ62-78372. #25467
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Owens Valley and LA Aqueduct
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