July 01, 2022

043 - Christian S. Harrison - All the Water the Law Allows

1 hour 5 minutes

A conversation with historian Christian S. Harrison about his book, All the Water the Law Allows: Las Vegas and Colorado River Politics (University of Oklahoma Press, 2021).

Christian S. Harrison is an environmental historian in Nevada. He hold a PhD in History from the University of Nevada Las Vegas, teaches government at Coronado High School in Henderson, NV, and is a board member of the nonprofit Preserve Nevada, where he works to engage public school teachers in historic preservation efforts throughout the state. His book that we discuss today, All the Water the Law Allows: Las Vegas and Colorado River Politics, was published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2021 in their "The Environment in Modern North America Series."

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Podcast Notes:

Host and Producer Brenden W. Rensink is Associate Director of the Redd Center, an Associate Professor of History at BYU, General Editor of the Intermountain Histories project, and author of the 2018 book Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands. Links to other publications and projects here: https://linktr.ee/bwrensink

Support provided by the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University.

Podcast Music was written and recorded by local Provo composer by Micah Dahl Anderson.

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