| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.1

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Book Review

River of Renewal: Myth and History in the Klamath Basin. By Stephen Most. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2006. xxxiv + 293 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, and sources, and index. Paper $22.50.
In this fine study, filmmaker and playwright Stephen Most suggests that rivalry, from the Latin rivalis (one who uses a stream with another), "probably received its name in a water dispute" (p. 230). How appropriate, because the Klamath River has it all: countless federal and state agencies, three Indian reservations, logging towns and irrigation schemes, world-class fisheries, and a national park. It is no surprise that the watershed's story is one of unending rivalry.	1
Expanding on a documentary film, Most emphasizes the myths of the Klamath, from Nepowo (leader of the salmon) to secessionist fantasies of the State of Jefferson. Such myths, like the enormous bucket erected in downtown Klamath Falls in 2000 to protest water reallocation, articulate political positions and ideas about nature, and help explain the intensity of disputes on the Klamath, whether over logging roads or fishing rights; as Most notes, "What was at stake was life" (p. xxxiv).	. . .

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