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Elwood Mead's hard lessons for a shrinking river

Elwood Mead's hard lessons for a shrinking river

Elwood Mead arrived in Cheyenne in 1888 to sort out Wyoming's water law before it had any. Territorial Governor Thomas Moonlight had offered the 30-year-old Mead the job sight unse…

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