Water on the Llano Estacado

John Beusterien is a professor of Spanish at Texas Tech University. He has published widely in the environmental humanities and is developing Lubbock Waters, a museum to educate about the ecosystem of the Southern High Plains. Britta Anderson is an assistant professor of border studies and Latinx literature at Texas Tech University. She teaches courses on environmental justice and researches the social and environmental impacts of border militarization.

Illustrations Tables Preface Introduction Part I: Science and Water Law Chapter 1: Water Gaia: The Earth as Aquifer - Bruce Clarke Chapter 2: Water Sources on the Llano Estacado: A History of the Study of the Ogallala Formation - Joseph Cepeda Chapter 3: Groundwater Depletion and the Drying of Blackwater Draw - John E. Stout Chapter 4: Addressing the Water Challenges of the Llano Estacado with New Sources - Balaji Rao, Karlo Rasporic, and Danny Reible Chapter 5: Adaptation to Redemption in the Texas High Plains - Amy Hardberger Part II: Archaeology and History Chapter 6: Water Diplomacy: Cross-Cultural Encounters on the High Plains Aquascapes during the Era of Early Contact?? - John William Nelson Chapter 7: Controlling Water, Controlling the Llano: Water, Violence, War, and Settler Colonialism in the Nineteenth-Century Llano Estacado - Joel Zapata Chapter 8: Fossil Animals of the Llano Estacado and the Natural History of Water on the Southern Great Plains - John A. Moretti Chapter 9: Lubbock's Water History - Jim Bertram, John Beusterien, and Eileen Johnson Part III: Life Writing Chapter 10: After the Fall: Three Land Recovery Practitioners on the Southern Plains - Darryl Birkenfeld Chapter 11: Who Is Going to Save the Ogallala Aquifer from Depletion? Class Politics in Three Literary Texts - Ryan Brooks Chapter 12: Natural Springs, Terminal Culture: An Elegy for Water on the Llano Estacado - Alex Hunt Chapter 13: Finding the Trail of Living Water: A Journey of 12,000 Years - Dolores Mosser, with Sammie Simpson, Eric Simpson, and Eileen Martha Part IV: Music and the Visual Arts Chapter 14: The Thirsty Llano Estacado in a Ballad about a Legendary Cibolero - John Beusterien and Tim F. Foster Chapter 15: M12 Studio's The Tap, or the Slow Drip of Aquifer Depletion - Kevin Chua Chapter 16: Process & Pedagogy: Visual Art and Mediations on the Ogallala Aquifer - Carol Flueckiger Chapter 17: Corrido Vibrante/Vibrant Currents: A Visual Poetic Essay on the Llano Estacado - Jorge Hernandez Camacho, Criseida Santos-Guevara, Mathilda Shepard Lubbock Waters: A Conclusion and a Beginning - John Beusterien Acknowledgments Bibliography Contributors Index