One mans viewWilliam Gilpin, Governor of Colorado.Feed a
population of 1 billion.Rains would turn it to a paradise (very low
rainfall area)Become the backbone of the countryJohn Wesley Powell:
the head of the US Geologic survey viewed this as folly. The water
out west is in such short supply that it would never support that.
Technology was needed to move water to the area.Why West?Romantic
image of the Frontier.RailCattleGold and miningScienceFarming
(Homesteaders)Economic Opportunity
Problems:Great Plains Indian Country by the government in
1834Frontier life
