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Prologue: The Palisaded Plain | p. 1 |
The Underground Ocean | |
The Phantom Reservoir | p. 7 |
The Flattest Land | p. 16 |
Pumping Kansas Dry | p. 22 |
Declining Fortunes | p. 29 |
A State of Nature | p. 34 |
Don't Drink the Water | p. 44 |
Too Important to Stop | p. 58 |
Paper Water | p. 61 |
To Determine Their Destiny | p. 73 |
The Ghosts of Ancient Rivers | |
Peering at the Edge | p. 83 |
To Dig a Hole | p. 88 |
Holocene | p. 116 |
"Wholly Unfit for Cultivation" | p. 127 |
Finding the Water | p. 133 |
Circles on the Plain | p. 142 |
Apocalypse Delayed | p. 151 |
Minimum Water | |
Adaptation | p. 159 |
The Opportunity to be Efficient | p. 171 |
Making Every Bit Count | p. 178 |
A Tenuous Balance | p. 186 |
An Elephant in a Dark Room | p. 191 |
Roberts County Rancher | p. 210 |
Drowning Texas Tech | p. 241 |
The Long Farewell | p. 255 |
Epilogue: The Buffalo Spring | p. 271 |
Acknowledgments | p. 283 |
Bibliography | p. 289 |
Index | p. 311 |
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