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Daniel Tyler. Silver Fox of the Rockies: Delphus E. Carpenter and Western Water Compacts. Foreword by Donald J. Pisani. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2003. Pp. xxi, 392. $34.95.

This new book by Daniel Tyler is a biography of Delphus E. Carpenter (1877–1951), who was Colorado's commissioner of interstate streams at a crucial juncture in ongoing disputes between states over water rights in the West. "Silver Fox" was a moniker afforded Carpenter by a friend. Silver foxes, large members of the red fox family, have reputations for great patience, strong survival instincts, adaptability, determination, and sensitivity to their surroundings—all attributes that Tyler believes characterized Carpenter. Carpenter, a second-generation Coloradoan from a pioneering ranching family, was from Weld County in the Greeley area, along the Front Range north of Denver. He attended and graduated from the law school of Denver University, reading successfully for the law in a Denver law office. He returned to Greeley to practice law, married a local woman with a ranching background, started to raise a family, and bought a ranch. In 1908, running as a conservative states' rights Republican associated with livestock and irrigation interests, he won a four-year term in the state senate. As a legislator, he concentrated on water law and represented Colorado in a water dispute with Wyoming. A turning point in his life came in 1912, when he unexpectedly lost reelection to a Bull Moose Republican. Carpenter left elective politics, and in 1913 a Republican governor appointed him streams commissioner, a post he held until forced out by a new Democratic governor in 1934. Parkinson's disease rendered Carpenter bedridden for the rest of his life.

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