| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.3

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.3 | The History Cooperative

Silver Fox of the Rockies: Delphus E. Carpenter and Western Water Compacts. By Daniel Tyler. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. xxi + 392 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)
In writing of the life and work of early Colorado water lawyer Delphus Carpenter, historian Daniel Tyler has illuminated a period that captures the imagination of western water enthusiasts. In the early years of the twentieth century, the U. S. Supreme Court, the federal Reclamation Service (later the Bureau of Reclamation), and the western states themselves all wrestled with the issue of how to allocate the waters of the West.	1
Born in Greeley, Colorado, in 1877, Delph Carpenter was the grandson of pioneer settlers in the Union Colony. His childhood in an agricultural community had a profound effect on young Carpenter. He never lost his attachment to the land and to the precious water that nourished it. After earning a law degree at the University of Denver, he began the practice of law in northeastern Colorado, specializing in the then-infant law of water rights. It proved a tough way to make a living, despite his habits of hard work (that led in later life to poor health).	. . .

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