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Acknowledgments

I am most grateful to all the water rights holders, irrigators, ditch bosses (mayordomos), ditch riders, water managers, lawyers, engineers, hydrologists, and personnel from the Office of the State Engineer (New Mexico) who generously agreed to share information, insights, and expertise of all kinds. This book is the result of our conversations, and I hope it provokes more of them.

Various chapters and snippets in Unsettled Waters were informed by Melanie Stansbury, David Correia, Juan Estevan Arellano, Darcy Bushnell, Eric Shultz, Sylvia Rodriguez, Stanley Crawford, Miguel Santistevan, Maria Lane, David Benavides, Paul Mathews, David Garcia, and Aaron Bobrow-Strain. I want to single out Maria Lane’s excellent work that is reshaping our understanding of water, science, and the courts during the territorial period of New Mexico. Melanie Stansbury and Darcy Bushnell were vital to my early understanding of the Aamodt case and the multiple outcomes of adjudication in general. Long-time water authors Helen Ingram and Jim Wescoat corrected early misconceptions and filled in gaps. New Mexico water beat reporters Staci Matlock and John Fleck also had useful feedback and insight as I developed the prospectus for this book. Rick Carpenter at the City of Santa Fe Water Division also provided repeated individual and course visits to the infrastructure of that small city.

To the late Juan Estevan Arellano, I owe the most: his lessons and his memory remind us of the values and challenges of small-scale irrigation in New Mexico. His recently released Enduring Acequias appeared before he passed in late October 2014 and will no doubt serve his legacy well. William Doolittle and the late Karl Butzer shaped my early understanding of the value of ancient and historic irrigation systems.

At Colorado College, I am humbled to have current (and former) colleagues willing to share their time, support, and expertise. This work was shaped by conversations, ideas, and inspiration by my colleagues in Southwest studies—notably, Santiago Guerra and Karen Roybal (Montoya). Their scholarship and teaching remind me that the greater Southwest is a source of theory and praxis, not just a recipient. Colleagues Anne Hyde, Takeshi Ito, David and Christina Torres-Rouff, and Corina McKendry shared their early and late version insights on this project. Informal discussions over beer were no less vital, and I thank William Davis, Michael O’Riley, and Tyler Cornelius for often listening to my book-driven rants. I have benefited from students’ comments, insights, and shared senior capstone moments, as well as their own senior-year work that informed parts of Unsettled Waters.

The Colorado College Crown Faculty Center (Rebecca Tucker, Jane Murphy) supported a development workshop on the first iteration of this manuscript, during which James F. Brooks, Stanley Crawford, and Wendy Jepson shared comments and insights that vastly improved the organization, tone, and argumentation you find here. The Office of the Dean, Social Science Executive Committee (SSEC), and multiple Jackson Fellowships from the Hulbert Center for Southwest Studies funded this work between 2007 and 2016. Additional funding from the SSEC in 2017 paid for Bill Nelson’s finely executed maps. A sabbatical in 2017 and 2018 provided the time to write this book.

An initial conversation with Rebecca Lave led me to the Critical Environments book series at the University of California Press and Kate Marshall and Bradley Depew, who provided guidance throughout. Peer reviews at the University of California Press by Tom Sheridan and Maria Lane provided valuable and constructive criticism. The book production process was ably assisted by Nicholle Robertson at BookComp, Inc., and I thank the excellent work of copy editor Wendy Lawrence. I am grateful to artist Chuck Forsman for allowing me to use his painting Native Land as inspiration for the book cover and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College for permission to use this work.

Archival collections and their excellent staff were fundamental: the New Mexico State Records Center and Archives, the Center for the Southwest at the UNM main library, the small collections in the basement of the Office of the State Engineer’s Bataan building complex, and the Fray Angélico Chávez Historical Library were all carefully consulted. I benefited from being an ACM (Associated Colleges of the Midwest) Newberry Library Faculty fellow during the fall semesters of 2013 and 2017, in Chicago. At Newberry, Diane Dillon, Scott Stevens, Jim Akerman, and 2013–2014 Newberry fellows Tobias Higbie, Kathleen Washburn, Michael Vorenburg, Leon Fink, Elizabeth Shermer, Susan Sleeper-Smith, Patricia Marroquin Norby, and Michael Schermer were especially helpful in shaping an initial prospectus for this book. Diana and J. Stege allowed us time for writing in their idyllic adobe house in New Mexico, and they have my profound thanks.

The personal debts here run deep. I thank my close and extended family for letting me work and live like a hermit this past year. To Ann, my constant companion and compassionate, ruthless critic, I owe you most of all.