Review of Flat Water: A History of Nebraska and Its Water Edited by Robert Kuzelka, Charles Flowerday, Robert Manley, Bradley Rundquist, and Sally Herrin

Authors

James E. Sherow, Kansas State University

Date of this Version

1995

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 15:1 (Winter 1995). Copyright © 1995 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Abstract

Read this volume if you want to know anything, nearly everything, about the history of water development in Nebraska. Robert Manley first began this book as a centennial history of the Nebraska State Irrigation Association, but he persuaded the editors of the need for a more inclusive treatment of Nebraska, which incidentally is an Omaha or Oto word meaning "Broad, Flat Water." Over thirty contributors would write the articles, draw the maps, make the charts, and take the photographs that comprise this hefty undertaking. The production staff should take pride in everyone's efforts.