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Engineering the Modern American West Deena Varner the book is both practicalDuring the second half of the 19th century, Americans dramatically altered the landscape of the arid American West especially its precious few rivers. Engineers built ever more ambitious dams, canals, diversions, and reservoirs until, by the dawn of the 20th century, only the federal government wielded the resources needed to continue the development. At the forefront of the federal effort was Frederick Haynes Newell: son of a rambling New England