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Bibliography
I. Archival Materials and Manuscripts
A. NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Department of the Interior. Reclamation Service. Record Group 527. See the General File, 1902-1919 and Project File, 1902-1919.
B. MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS
Austin, Mary Hunter. Papers. Special Collections, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.
Early Water System Records. General Manager’s Office Historical Records. Department of Water and Power, Los Angeles.
Hall, Pierson. Papers. Ventura County Museum of History and Art, Ventura, Calif.
Haynes, John Randolph. Papers. Department of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles.
Lippincott, Joseph B. Papers. Water Resources Center Archives, University of California, Berkeley.
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Mulholland, William. William Mulholland’s Office Files. General Manager’s Office Historical Records. Department of Water and Power, Los Angeles.
Outland, Charles. Papers. Ventura County Museum of History and Art, Ventura, Calif.
Owens Valley Historical Records. Real Estate Division Historical Records. Department of Water and Power, Los Angeles.
Sherman, Moses H. Papers. Sherman Foundation, Corona Del Mar, Calif.
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C. DISSERTATIONS, THESES, AND MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS
Beneda, Janet. “The Los Angeles Aqueduct: The Men Who Constructed It.” Thesis, institution unidentified, May 1974. Currently in the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Library.
Cifarelli, Anthony. “The Owens River Aqueduct and the Los Angeles Times: A study in Early Twentieth Century Business Ethics and Journalism.” Master’s thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 1969.
Jones, William K. “The History of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.” Thesis, University of Oklahoma, 1967.
Mulqueen, Stephen P. “The St. Francis Dam Failure,” Ventura County Historical Museum.
Pentland, Gertrude. “Los Angeles Aqueduct with Special Reference to the Labor Problem.” Thesis, Institution Unidentified, May 1916. Currently in the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Library.
Spriggs, Elisabeth Mathieu. “The History of the Domestic Water Supply of Los Angeles.” Master’s thesis, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1931.
II. Government Documents
A. UNITED STATES
Department of the Interior. United States Geological Survey. The Geology and Water Resources of Owens Valley California, by Willis T. Lee. Water Supply Paper no. 181,1906.
Department of the Interior. United States Geological Survey. An Intensive Study of the Water Resources of a Part of the Owens Valley California, by Charles H. Lee. Water Supply Paper no. 294, 1912.
Department of the Interior. United States Geological Survey. The Quality of Surface Waters of California, by Walton Van Winkle and Frederick M. Eaton. Water Supply Paper no. 237,1910.
U.S. Bureau of the Census. U.S. 1900 Census, Los Angeles County, Calif. ED. 7,61, 90, 123.
____ U.S. 1910 Census, Los Angeles County, Calif. Ed 58,123.
____ U.S. 1920 Census, Los Angeles County, Calif. Ed 58,255.
U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation. Hearings … on Protection and Development of Lower Colorado River Basin: H.R. 2903, by Mr. Swing 68th Cong. 1st sess., 1924.
B. STATE OF CALIFORNIA
California Railroad Commission. Los Angeles Aqueduct: General Construction and Auxiliary Costs, compiled by O. E. Clemens, 1 February 1915.
Committee Report for the State of California. Causes Leading to the Failure of the Saint Francis Dam. Sacramento, 1928.
McClure, W.F. Owens Valley-Los Angeles: Report Made at the Request of Governor Friend Wm. Richardson Following the Opening of the Alabama Hill Waste Gates of the Aqueduct by the People on November16, 1924. Sacramento, 1925.
Saint Francis Dam Commission. Report of the Commission Appointed by Governor C. C. Young to Investigate Causes Leading to Failure of the Saint Francis Dam near Saugus California.1928.
C. CITY OF LOS ANGELES
Aqueduct Investigation Board. Report of the Aqueduct Investigation Board to the City Council of Los Angeles. 31 August 1912.
Board of Public Works. Report of the Board of Consulting Engineers on the Project of the Los Angeles Aqueduct from Owens River to the San Fernando Valley, by John R. Freeman, Frederick P. Steams, and James D. Schuyler. 22 December 1906.
Board of Public Service Commissioners. Twenty-second Annual Report. 30 June 1923.
Board of Public Service Commissioners. Report on Available Water Supply of City of Los Angeles and Metropolitan Area, by Louis C. Hill, J. B. Lippincott, and A. L. Sonderegger. August 1924.
Board of Water Commissioners. Annual Reports.
City Council. Report of the Committee to Investigate and Report the Cause of the Failure of the Saint Francis Dam. March 1928.
City Council. Report on the Los Angeles Aqueduct, by Edward Johnson and Edward S. Cobb. 15 July 1912.
County of Los Angeles, County Coroner. Transcript of Testimony and Verdict of the Coroners Jury in the Inquest over Victims of the Saint Francis Dam Disaster, Book 26902. April 1928.
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Department of Water and Power. Report of the Chief Engineer, Annual Reports.
District Attorney’s Office. Report to Asa Keyes, The Failure of the Saint Francis Dam, by Allan E. Sedgwick, Louis Z. Johnson, Walter G. Clark, and Charles T. Leeds. March 1928.
D. COURT CASES AND PUBLIC RECORDS
City of Los Angelesv. Pomeroy, 124 Cal. 597,63 (1899)
City of Los Angelesv. County of Inyo,167 Cal. App. 2d 736 (1959)
County of Inyov. City of Los Angeles,71 Cal. App. 3d 185 (1977).
County of Inyov. City of Los Angeles,78 Cal. App. 3d. 82 (1978).
Dornalechev. City of Los Angeles,Case No. 273624
In the Matter of Estate and Guardianship of Lillian E. Sloan. 1919, Los Angeles County.
In Re Estate of Addie Haas Mulholland. Los Angeles County.
In Re Estate of Lillie Mulholland. Los Angeles County.
In Re Estate of Benjamin C. Strang. Los Angeles County.
H. H. Kellyv. City of Los Angeles,Case no. 273629
The Matter of the Estate of William Mulholland,File No. 151991, Los Angeles County.
The Matter of the Estate of Perry Mulholland, File No. 457423, Los Angeles County.
The Matter of the Estate of Clara S. Sloan.File No. 310299, Los Angeles County.
Ray E. Risingv. City of Los Angeles,Case no. 273625-628
Lucilk M. Sloanv. Edmund G. Sloan. Divorce File, 1918, Los Angeles County.
III. Periodicals
A. NEWSPAPERS
Intake
Inyo Register
Los Angeles Daily News
Los Angeles Examiner
Los Angeles Express
Los Angeles Herald
Los Angeles Record
Los Angeles Star
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Tribune
Sacramento Union
B. SIGNED ARTICLES
Brennecke, Olga. “How Los Angeles Built the Greatest Aqueduct in the World: A Story of Interesting Municipal Activity.” Craftsman, November 1912: pp. 188-96.
Cross, Frederick C. “My Days on the Jawbone.” Westways, May 1968, pp. 3-8.
Eaton, Henry G. “Poverty Revealed Our Riches.” Los Angeles Times Magazine, 24 July 1932: 4.
Grimes, William. “Chunnel Vision.” New York Times Magazine, 16 September 1990, pp. 34-37.
Griswold, Wesley. “The Day the Dam Burst.” Popular Science, March 1964,pp.88-92.
Grunsky, C. E. “Saint Francis Dam Failure.” Western Construction News,25 May, 25 June 1928, pp.
314-24.
Hall, Pierson M. “Review of the First Edition of Man-made Disaster.” California Historical Society Quarterly 45, no. 1 (1964): 288-92.
Heinley, Burt A. “The Longest Aqueduct in the World.” Outlook25 September 1909, pp. 215-20.
____. “Water for Millions.” Sunset 23, no. 12 (1909): 631-38.
____. “Carrying Water Through a Desert.” National Geographic, July 1910, pp. 568-96.
____. “Aladdin of the Aqueduct.” Sunset 26, no. 4 (1912): 465-67.
____. “An Aqueduct Two Hundred and Forty Miles Long.” Scientific American, 25 May 1912, p. 476.
____. “Restoring the Los Angeles Siphon.” Municipal Journal, 7 May 1914, pp. 633-35.
____. “Aqueduct Outlet Cascades.” Engineering News, 2 September 1915, pp. 455-56.
Heyser, Jack. “Los Angeles City Fathers Go Water Hunting: The Birth of the Owens River Aqueduct.” Journal of the West Antelope Valley Historical Society1, no. 1 (1988): 73-86.
Hoffman, Abraham. “Joseph Barlow Lippincott and the Owens Valley Controversy: Time for Revision.” Southern California Quarterly54 (Fall 1972): 239-54.
____. “Origins of a Controversy: The U.S. Reclamation Service and the Owens Valley-Los Angeles Water Dispute.” Arizona and the West19 (Winter 1977): 333-46.
____. “Did He or Didn’t He? Fred Eaton’s Role in the Owens Valley-Los Angeles Water Controversy.” Journal of the West22 (April 1983): 30-38.
Hurlburt, W, W, “William Mulholland, Man and Engineer.” Western Pipe and Steel News2, no. 1 (1925): 5-12.
Kahrl, William L. “The Politics of California Water.” California Historical Quarterly55, no. 1 (Spring 1976): 2-25.
____.”The Politics of California Water: Owens Valley and the Los Angeles Aqueduct, 1900-1927.” California Historical Quarterly 55, no. 2 (Summer 1976): 98-120.
Lippincott, Joseph B. “Mulholland’s Memory.” Civil Engineering 9, no. 3 (1939):199.
____. “Frederick Eaton.” American Society of Civil Engineers, Transactions100 (1935): 1645-47.
____. “William Mulholland: Engineer, Pioneer, Raconteur.” Civil Engineering2, no. 2 (1941): 105-7, 161-64.
Lissner, Meyer. “Bill Mulholland.” American Magazine73, no. 6 (1912): 674.
McCarthy, John Russell. “Water: The Story of Bill Mulholland.” Los Angeles Saturday Night, published in sixteen installments, 30 October 1937 26 March 1938.
Mulholland, William. “Water from the Colorado.” Community Builder, March 1928, p. 23.
____. “A Brief Historical Sketch of the Growth of the Los Angeles City Water Department.” Public Service4, no. 6 (1920): 1-8.
Osborne, Henry Z. “The Completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.” Scientific American, 8 November 1913, pp. 364-65.
Prosser, Richard, “William Mulholland, Maker of Los Angeles.” Western Construction News 1, no. 8 (1926): 43-44.
Reed, Rochelle. “Castillo del Lago.” House and Garden, May 1987, pp. 206-10.
Robinson, W. W. “Myth Making in the Los Angeles Area.” Southern California Quarterly, March 1963, pp. 83-94.
Shrader, Roscoe E. “A Ditch in the Desert.” Scribner’s, May 1912, pp. 538-50.
Stewart, William R. “A Desert City’s Far Reach for Water.” World’s Work, November 1907, pp. 9538-40.
Stone, Irving. “Desert Padre.” Saturday Evening Post 216, no. 47 (1944): 9-11.
Twilegar, Burt I. “Mulholland’s Pipe Dream.” Westways, January 1949, pp. 16-17.
Van Norman, H. A. “Memoir of William Mulholland.” Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers(1936): 1604-8.
Woehlke, Walter V. “The Rejuvenation of San Fernando.” Sunset 28, no. 2 (1914): 357-66.
C. UNSIGNED ARTICLES
“California’s Little Civil War.” Literary Digest 83, no. 10 (1924): 15.
“Dam Failure Wrecks Power Systems.” Electrical West, 1 April 1928, p. 9.
“The Great Aqueduct and What It Means to Los Angeles.” Los Angeles Financier, October 1910, pp. 3-7.
“H. A. Van Norman, Chief Engineer and General Manager, LADWP.” Intake 21, no. 9 (1944): 1-16.
“Los Angeles Aqueduct.” Building and Engineering News, 25 August 1915: 6.
“The Los Angeles Aqueduct Seizure—What Really Happened.” Fire and Water Engineering,17 December 1924, pp. 1312-13.
“The Owens Valley Controversy.” Outlook, 13 July 1927,pp. 341-43
“Nine Miles of Siphons,” Literary Digest46, no. 9 (1913): 452.
“Reconstruction of San Francisquito No. 2 Power Plant.” Electrical West62, no. 1 (1929): 14-17.
“Reconstruction of San Francisquito Power Plant No. 2 After Destruction by the Overwhelming Flood of March 13, 1928.” Los Angeles Section American Society of Civil Engineers2, no. 1 (1928): 11-16.
“Saint Francis Dam Disaster Invites Evil Politics.” Graphic, 17 March 1928, p. 16.
“That Dreadful Night.” Westways, March 1961, pp. 14-15.
D. ORAL HISTORIES
Department of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Water and Power, Los Angeles
Eastern California Museum, Independence, Calif.
Ventura County Museum of History and Art, Ventura, Calif.
E. MISCELLANEOUS
Clipping File, Los Angeles Municipal Reference Library, Los Angeles City Hall
Clipping File, Department of Water and Power, Los Angeles
Clipping File, Doheny Library, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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Author Biography
Margaret Leslie Davis is the author of RIVERS IN THE DESERT: WILLIAM MULHOLLAND AND THE INVENTING OF LOS ANGELES and DARK SIDE OF FORTUNE. She has won the Golden Spur Award for Best Nonfiction Book. She is graduate of Georgetown University and was formerly editor of Arts and Humanities at the Excite Network. Davis lives in Los Angeles, California where she is a lawyer.