CALIFORNIA THIRST

<p class=ql-align-justify><strong><em>CALIFORNIA THIRST</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>California Thirst</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is historical fiction about the struggle for water between the Owens Valley and Los Angeles in the early 20th Century.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the early part of the century Los Angeles lacked sufficient water for its rapidly growing population. It began acquiring water rights in the Owens Valley over 200 miles north of the city and built an aqueduct to carry the water to the thirsty city. Then in the 1920s as the city took ever more water from the valley local residents resisted with numerous attacks on the aqueduct.</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> California Thirst </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>tells the story from the perspective of the ranchers who fought to keep their water and their way of life.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Owens Valley ranchers Alice and Fred have water that Los Angeles wants. The LA water agent will go to any length to get it. When they refuse to sell their water Alice is attacked and their cattle are poisoned. Then when the LA aqueduct carrying the water 200 miles to the city is dynamited all eyes turn toward Fred. Did he fire the first shot in the years-long war between Owens Valley and Los Angeles during the 1920s?</strong></p><p></p><p></p>