WSP07671

• File Number: 8407
• Description: Platte River Basin-River Basin General Publications
• Date: 6/1/1941
• Author: NatResPlanningBoard
• Title: Bibliography Platte River Basin Colorado Wyoming Nebraska
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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I - GENERAL

1 1839- Townsend, John K.
N~rrative of a Journey Across The Rocky Mountains to
the Columbia River, etc.. Chapter III, Arrival at ths
Pl~tto River, Chapter IV, North Fork of the Platte
River, 1834, pp. 28-57 (DI'L)

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1843- Fremont. J. C.
Ac~ou~t of Explorations ~~d Report on Country Jetween
the Frontiers of Missouri and the South rass in the
Rocky Ilountnins, Mt>~ 2-0ct. 29, 1842. Senate Doc.,
3rd Session. 27th Congress, 1842-'43 (DPL)

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3 1871- Agric~turcl Resources of Wyominb Territory.
U~A Report. pp. 548-559 (DI'L)

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1883- House Miscellaneous Documents. 2d Session. 47th Con-
gress. 1882-'83, Volume 13. Tenth Census of the
United St~tes. Vol. 17, Water Power. Pnrt 2. Contnins
a good description of the Platte River basin ns a
wholo and by principal tributnry arecs - power. gra-
dients, QrainnGo aroas, power inst~~lntions, etc..
pp. 37-54 incl. il. (DPL)

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1887- ~icks, Lowis E.
Irri;;ation in l,ebrnsl:a.
Lincoln. 32 pp. J~unry,

lTebr. Agri. :Exp. Stat, :!Jul. I,
1887.

6 1!lS9- ::iilton. Rich".r~, S.
IrriGation il'! the United Stntes. Second e~.i tion of
Sen~te Miscellnneous Documents No. 15, 49th ConbTess,
pp. 63-110 end ~iscollnneous pp. (JPL)

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lE89- The :;ffect Upon Cerkin Rivers in ColoraC.o of The
Diversion of W~ter for Irrig"-tion - North Platte and
South ?latte. Sonato bxecutive DocUDent No. 120,
50th COnGress, Special Session, ~rch 4, 1889. Vol.3
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8 1889- Repnrt of the Special Committee of the U. S. Senate
0" t:le L'ri,;;:ction nnc'. Recl8I!l2.tion of Arid Lands.
.ole. 3 "-Ud 4, Platte River basin. (See Index page 592)
(:VI'L)

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1890- Report of the Specie~ Committee of the United States
Sen~te all the Irrigation Me:' Reclf'Ilation of Arid Lends,
Vols. 1 and 2, M~ 8,1890, Report No. 926 and views of
the Minority - 51st Congress,lst Session (~xcerpts fro~
entire '<0111.':18).