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English
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Irrigation, Community, and Historical Development Along the Upper Snake River
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Agricultural History
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Spring 2002
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76
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no.2
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434-447
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The complexity of relationships between water and people in the Snake River plain of southeastern Idaho is discussed. Mormons pioneered this region and developed the early irrigation systems to produce what is now recognized as the agricultural heartland of Idaho. For Mormon farmers, irrigation was the foundation of a way of life. They dammed and diverted the Snake River, confident that they were doing that which, in their eyes, was divinely approved.