Lawrence Pratt collection concerning Arizona v. California and the Colorado River 1948-1960

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Lawrence Pratt collection concerning Arizona v. California and the Colorado River 1948-1960

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The collection consists of printed exhibits, engineering reports, witness testimony, and speeches relating to the court case, Arizona v. California, which concerned water rights to the Colorado River and its tributaries and which also involved a boundary dispute between the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation and the Colorado River Indian Reservation. These materials were seemingly collected by Lawrence Pratt in his position as Senior Hydraulic Engineer at the Colorado River Board of California, and shed particular light on California's side of the court case.

2.0 linear feet (2 boxes)

eng,

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6349639

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Pratt, Lawrence

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Lawrence Pratt was a civil engineer based in Los Angeles, and also served as Senior Hydraulic Engineer with the Colorado River Board of California from 1949 to at least 1958 and possibly later. In 1958, he testified as an expert witness for the California defendants in the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation and Colorado River Indian Reservation boundary dispute. From the description of Lawrence Pratt collection concerning Arizona v. California and the Colorado River, 1948-1960. (Unknown)...

Colorado River Indian Reservation (Ariz. and Calif.)

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Pratt, Lawrence

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Lawrence Pratt was a civil engineer based in Los Angeles, and also served as Senior Hydraulic Engineer with the Colorado River Board of California from 1949 to at least 1958 and possibly later. In 1958, he testified as an expert witness for the California defendants in the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation and Colorado River Indian Reservation boundary dispute. From the guide to the Lawrence Pratt collection concerning Arizona v. California and the Colorado River, 1948-1960...

Colorado River Board of California

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Administrative History The Colorado River Board of California was created in 1937 (Chapter 838) to protect the rights and interests of the State of California, its agencies and citizens, in and to the waters of the Colorado River system. The maximum use of Colorado River water is essential to the development of nearly one million acres of agricultural land in the Palo Verde, Imperial and Coachella valleys, and to the domestic, industrial, and...

Fort Mojave (Ariz.)

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