Recommended Reading
Online Resources
- Blitz, Matt. "On Occasions Like This, I Envy the Dead: The St. Francis Dam Disaster"
Smithsonian, Smithsonian.com, March. 2015, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/occasions-i-envy-dead-st-francis-dam-disaster-180954543/ Accessed 19 Feb. 2021
- “First Owens River-Los Angeles Aqueduct | ASCE.”
Asce.Org, 2019, www.asce.org/project/first-owens-river-los-angeles-aqueduct/. Accessed 10 Dec. 2019.
- Harrison, Scott. “California Retrospective: St. Francis Dam Collapse Left a Trail of Death and Destruction.”
Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2016, www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-stfrancis-dam-retrospective-20160319-story.html.
- Meares, Hadley. “Zanja Madre: Life and Death on LA’s First Water System.”
Curbed LA, Curbed LA, 28 Apr. 2016, la.curbed.com/2016/4/28/11490196/los-angeles-history-water-zanjas.
- Nazaryan, Alexander. "An Engineering Disaster on Edge of L.A. Offers an Ominous Warning."
Newsweek, 10 Apr. 2016, www.newsweek.com/st-francis-dam-disaster-los-angeles-warning-engineering-445915.
- Sahagun, Louis , “The L.A. Aqueduct at 100.”
Los Angles Times, 28 Oct. 2013, graphics.latimes.com/me-aqueduct/.
- Sklar, Anna. “Fred Eaton: A Second Look.”
LA Observed, 5 Nov. 2013, www.laobserved.com/intell/2013/11/fred_eaton_a_second_look.php.
- Standiford, Les. “Op-Ed: William Mulholland: L.A.’s Original Champion of Water Conservation.”
Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2015, www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-standiforth-mulholland-drought-response-20150414-story.html. Accessed 10 Dec. 2019.
- Wheeler, Mark. “California Scheming.”
Smithsonian, Smithsonian.com, Oct. 2002, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/california-scheming-69592006/. Accessed 10 Dec. 2019.
Books & Publications
- Crise, Steve, et al. Pacific Electric Railway (Then and Now).
Charleston, Arcadia Publ, 2011.
- Diehl, Digby. Front Page: 100 Years of the Los Angeles Times.
New York, H.N. Abrams, 1981.
- Hundley, Norris, and Donald C Jackson. Heavy Ground : William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster.
Berkeley, California, Published For The Huntington-Usc Institute On California And The West By University Of California Press, Berkeley, California, Press Berkeley And The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 2015.
- McDougal, Dennis. Privileged Son : Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty.
Cambridge, Mass., Da Capo, 2002.
- Mulholland, Catherine. William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles.
Berkeley, University Of California Press, 2000.
- Myers, William A, and Ira L Swett. Trolleys to the Surf : The Story of the Los Angeles Pacific Railway. (Interurbans Special, No. 63)
Glendale, California, Interurbans, 1976.
- Nichols, John. St. Francis Dam Disaster (Images of America).
Chicago, Ill., Arcadia Pub, 2002.
- Nunis, Doyce B, and Historical Society Of Southern California. The St. Francis Dam Disaster Revisited.
Spokane Clark, 1995.
- Outland, Charles F. Man-Made Disaster : The Story of St. Francis Dam : Its Place in Southern California’s Water System, Its Failure, and the Tragedy in the Santa Clara River Valley, March 12 and 13, 1928.
Los Angeles, Historical Society Of Southern California ; Pasadena, 2002.
- Standiford, Les. Water to the Angels : William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles.
New York, Ecco, An Imprint Of Harpercollinspublishers, 2016.
- Starr, Kevin. Material Dreams : Southern California through the 1920s.
New York, Oxford University Press, 1990.
- Weingarten, Marc. Thirsty : William Mulholland, California Water, and the Real Chinatown.
Los Angeles, Ca, Vireo/Rare Bird, 2019.
- Wilkman, Jon. Floodpath : The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th-Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles
New York Bloomsbury, 2016.