scholarly journals A Field Guide to the Identification of the Ordinary High Water Mark (OHWM) in the Arid West Region of the Western United States: A Delineation Manual

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. Lichvar ◽  
Shawn M. McColley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High Water ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Field Guide ◽  
West Region ◽  
High Water Mark ◽  
Arid West

Evaluation of surface features for delineating the ordinary high water boundary on playas in the arid western United States

Wetlands ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. Lichvar ◽  
Walter R. Ochs ◽  
Sarah M. Gaines
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High Water ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Surface Features

Welsh Emigration to the United States

1959 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Alan Conway
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
High Water ◽  
The United States ◽  
Just In Time ◽  
Frank Lloyd Wright ◽  
High Water Mark ◽  
Roger Williams

There is a story told in Wales of a certain John Jones, a stalwart of the local choir, who died and arrived up above just in time for a Heavenly Choir practice. He immediately took his place and, looking around, found that there were a thousand tenors, a thousand sopranos and a thousand contraltos but only himself in the bass. Nothing daunted, he gave of his best in the opening chorus until suddenly the Heavenly Conductor rapped on the podium and turning to John Jones, said, “Not quite ao loud in the bass, please, Mr. Jones”. It has been much the same in the field of emigration; for every John Jones who went to America, whole choirs of other nationalities flooded in, and, with a few exceptions, subsequent narrators of the story of the Welsh in America, have sung, on both sides of the Atlantic, very loudly in the bass. The quality of the Welsh contribution to the United States as against the quantity of that contribution has been bolstered by filio-pietistic writers who have claimed for the Welsh nation, Roger Williams (who was not a Welshman), many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson, Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davies, John L. Lewis and Frank Lloyd Wright among many hundreds of other “eminent Welshmen”. Possibly the high water mark of such claims has been that of the discovery of America by Prince Madoc in the twelfth century, and the legend of the Welsh-speaking Welsh Indians, which was taken up again with great zeal in the nineteenth century and has lingered on to the present day despite the researches of Thomas Stephens which have reduced the claim to that of a romantic legend.

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