Review of Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land: A Historical Study in the Possibilities for American Sustainable Agriculture By John Opie

Authors

James E. Sherow, Kansas State University

Date of this Version

1995

Document Type

Article

Comments

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

Abstract

Opie presents a compelling story of maladapt ion on the Great Plains, along with great sympathy and understanding of the region's people. He draws his conclusions from a keen understanding of those who have used, and presently use, the aquifer, of the land and aquifer themselves, and of the economics and ecology encompassing and enveloping the regior His thoroughly researched book will stand as model for others to emulate and expand upor,