| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.1

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Canada and the United States

Blake Gumprecht. The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth. (Creating the North American Landscape.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1999. Pp. x, 369. $39.95.

In this well-written and beautifully crafted study, Blake Gumprecht provides a close look at the evolution of one of America's most urban rivers, focusing on the impact the river has had on human activities and how, in turn, those activities have altered the stream. Slightly more than fifty miles long, the Los Angeles River is today little more than a concrete-line conduit for sewage water flowing to the sea, something of a joke to most nearby residents. Such was not always the case, Gumprecht shows. The river was essential to the development of the Los Angeles region. As Gumprecht observes, the history of the Los Angeles River is "a frequently remarkable, sometimes bizarre, and ultimately tragic tale" of how the stream helped shape the development of Los Angeles and how the stream was remade in the image of the city (p. 7). . . .

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