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There Is No Life Without Water: Irrigation in Utah's Uinta Basin (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "The Transformation of Historical Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Charles E Orser, Jr" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the arid climate of Utah’s Uinta Basin, irrigation is the lifeblood of farming and ranching. Among the first tasks Euro-American settlers in Utah completed would be to secure water for their homestead by digging irrigation ditches. As settlers ventured further away from existing communities,...