Western Water Rights and the U.S. Supreme Court (Paperback)

Prologue: Of Water, Men and the Law
Part I. The Times
 1. The Nation Moves West (1830–1880)
 2. Herbert Spencer and Social Darwinism (1859–1938)
 3. Economic Fortunes and Misfortunes (1860–1875)
 4. The Prior Appropriation Doctrine (1840s–Present)
 5. Equitable Apportionment (1902–Present)
 6. Interstate Compacts (1922–Present)
Part II. The Man
Willis the Lawyer (1812–1894)
 7. Young Willis Van Devanter
 8. Cincinnatus (1833–1885)
 9. Watching the Court (1870s, 1880s)
10. Willis Goes West (1883)
11. The Warren Machine (1884–1890)
12. Willis and the "Johnson County War" (1890–1892)
13. Banditti of the Plains (1893–1896)
Willis the Politician/Bureaucrat
14. Willis' Wyoming Politics Go National (1892–1896)
15. Cleveland's Second Chance, Senator Warren and the McKinley Administration (1895–1897)
16. Assistant Attorney General Van Devanter (1897–1903)
Willis the Judge
17. Van Devanter's Eighth Circuit Decisions (1903–1911)
18. Reasonable Rail Rates, the Sherman Act (1890–1911)
19. The Supreme Court Turns White (1908–1911)
20. The Sherman Act at the Supreme Court
21. "Good Fellows" Willis and William (1921–1922)
Part III. The Laramie River Litigation
22. Wyoming v. Colorado (1903–1913)
23. Who Controls the Water? (1902–1917)
24. Development Under the Reclamation Act and Return to Court (1905–1922)
25. Judicial Harmony (1922)
26. Natural Resource or Interstate Commerce? (1921–1923)
27. Van Devanter's Surreptitious Composition of the Opinion and Decree (1922)
28. Wyoming v. Colorado, Final Opinion Published (1922)
29. Where Was the Balance of the Court on June 5, 1922? (1922)
30. The Decree and Holding of Wyoming v. Colorado
Part IV. Implications for Water Law
31. What of the Merits of Wyoming v. Colorado?
32. What of the Effect of the Decision in Wyoming v. Colorado?
33. The Case for Recusal
Part V. Willis Van Devanter's Justice
34. Van Devanter's Indian Cases (1897–1921)
35. Van Devanter's Income Tax Cases (1920–1925)
36. The Four Horsemen
37. The Measure of a Justice
38. Finis
Epilogue: That Was Then, This Is Now
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index