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In 1904, the newly created Los Angeles Department of Water and Power issued its first public report. 'The time has come,' it said, 'when we shall have to supplement the supply from another source.' With that simple statement, William Mulholland was about to become a modern Moses. But instead of leading his people to the promised land, he would cleave the desert and lead the promised waters to them.

~ Marc Reisner

Marc Reisner American West History

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

~ Wallace Stegner

Wallace Stegner American West Conservation Cooperation Environment Individualism Optimism

Those roads provided breath-taking views. There's something special about an empty road going on and on and on to the horizon where the sun burns the world away into a dancing, shmmering heat haze that reflects the crystal blue sky, literally blurring the line between heaven and earth.

~ Dave Gorman

Dave Gorman America American West Open Road Traveling

he had offered some of his own background. A youth in the South. An education in the North. Bred for life in the East. Trying not to die in the West.

~ Mary Doria Russell

Mary Doria Russell American West Mortality Western
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