Other Scholars
The Atlas of Drowned Towns builds on, contributes to, and connects with other work on displaced communities. See below for an incomplete list of articles, books, websites, and other resources for learning about places lost to river development.
Please share your knowledge about other such resources!
Academic Publications
- Aaron McArthur, St. Thomas, Nevada: A History Uncovered (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2013).
- Angela Kay Parker, Damming the Reservation: Tribal Sovereignty and Activism at Fort Berthold (University of Oklahoma Press: 2024).
- Anna Lehr Mueser, “They Took the Best Farms: Remembering Water Supply Development in Rural New York,” Agricultural History 98, No. 2 (May 1, 2024): 187–222.
- April M. Beisaw, Taking Our Water for the City: The Archaeology of New York City’s Watershed Communities (Berghahn Books: 2022)
- Bob H. Reinhardt, “Exploring Submerged Resilience: The Atlas of Drowned Towns,“ The American Historical Review 129, no. 4 (December 2024): 1677–1701 and “Drowned Towns in the Cold War West: Small Communities and Federal Water Projects,” Western Historical Quarterly 42, no. 2 (May 1, 2011): 149–72.
- Erika Marie Bsumek, The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2023).
- Jacques Leslie, Deep Water: The Epic Struggle over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005).
- James Wood Wilson, People in the Way: The Human Aspects of the Columbia River Project (University of Toronto Press, 1973).
- James E. Windsor and J. Alistair Mcvey, “Annihilation of Both Place and Sense of Place: The Experience of the Cheslatta T’En Canadian First Nation Within the Context of Large-Scale Environmental Projects,” Geographical Journal 171, no. 2 (2005): 146–65.
- Katrine Barber, Death of Celilo Falls(Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005).
- Margaret A. Vaverek, Lorin M. Flores, Beatriz Izaguirre, “A Wound Too Deep To Show: A Preliminary Study of the Legacy of Falcon International Dam, 1953-2023,”Journal of South Texas (Fall 2023), Kingsville, TX.: College of Arts & Sciences, Texas A&M University Press.
- Michael L. Lawson, Dammed Indians Revisited: The Continuing History of the Pick-Sloan Plan and the Missouri River Sioux (Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2009).
- Michael J. McDonald and John Muldowny, TVA and the Dispossessed: The Resettlement of Population in the Norris Dam Area (University of Tennessee Press, 1981).
- Nick Estes, Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance (London: Verso, 2019).
- Patrick McCully, Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams (London: Zed Books, 1996).
- Roberta Ulrich, Empty Nets: Indians, Dams, and the Columbia River (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1999).
- Sanjeev Khagram, Dams and Development: Transnational Struggles for Water and Power (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press: 2018).
- Tina Loo, “People in the Way: Modernity, Environment, and Society on British Columbia’s Arrow Lakes,” BC Studies 142 and 143 (2004): 161–196 and “Disturbing the Peace: Environmental Change and the Scales of Justice on a Northern River,” Environmental History 12, no. 4 (2007): 895–919.
Popular Media/Press
- Caroline Arlen, “Journey to the Bottom of Navajo Lake,” High Country News, August 4, 2003.
- Ella Marie Rast, The Whole Dam Story: The Drowning and Rising of a River City in the West (Bloomington: 1st Books Library, 2004).
- Genevieve Faoro-Johannsen and Robert D. Vigil Jr., Lost Sopris(Arcadia Publishing, 2024).
- Irvin E. Rockwell, The Saga of the American Falls Dam (New York: Hobson Book Press, 1947).
- Jayson Jacoby, “The Town That Disappeared,” Baker City Herald, December 23, 2017.
- Larry R. Matthews and Scott C. Roberts, The Lost Communities of Lake Oroville (Arcadia Publishing, 2016).
- Lauren Markham, “Death of a Valley,” Guernica, October 15, 2015.
- Lillian Cummings Densley, Saints, Sinners, and Snake River Secrets (Baker: The Record-Courier Printers, 1987).
- Marie Geer, They Called it Hebron (Cottage Grove: Cottage Grove Genealogical Society, 2007).
- Robert Mark Weiss, Laurelhurst: Lost Community of the Upper Rogue (Eagle Point: Laurelhurst Publications, 1991).
- Sybyl Smith, Pine Valley Vignettes (Bend: Maverick Publications, 1992).
- Wallace Ohrt, The Rogue I Remember (Seattle: Mountaineers, 1979).
Other Projects about and Scholars Interested in Displaced Communities
- 98 Acres in Albany, https://98acresinalbany.wordpress.com/.
- Center for Columbia River History (1990-2000): Project archives at Oregon Historical Society: http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv88635. Materials available through the Internet Archive Wayback Machine at https://web.archive.org/web/20071015193518/http://www.ccrh.org/index.htm.
- River Street Digital History Project, http://www.riverstreethistory.com/.
Please email us at drownedtowns@boisestate.edu with your suggestions for additions to this (again, incomplete!) list.