Los Angeles and the Owens Valley

Historian Abraham Hoffman offers fourteen entries on one of the most famous controversies of California history-the long-standing dispute between the City of Los Angeles and Owens Valley residents over the construction of a 235 mile-long aqueduct from the Owens River to the city in the early 1900s. Hoffman impartially examines and people and places involved, and provides an historical perspective on this important and controversial chapter of Los Angeles history.