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	William Mulholland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Mulholland (1855–1935) was a prominent and influential water-services engineer in Southern California.
		Mulholland resigned, took full responsibility for the worst civil engineering disaster in United States history, and at one point during the inquest sobbed, "I envy the dead".
		Mulholland died in 1935 and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Mulholland (538 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - William Mulholland
		Mulholland and Eaton realized that to acquire the Owens River for Los Angeles, they would have to put an end to this irrigation project -- a task for which Eaton was well qualified.
		Mulholland in particular had portrayed the acquisition of the Owens River as a life or death matter for Los Angeles.
		Mulholland sent out horseback patrols armed with machine guns, and issued shoot-to-kill orders when the aqueduct was bombed again.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/people/i_r/mulholland.htm (1406 words)

	Event.html
		Mulholland seemed to be the best candidate for the position; he was the most knowledgeable of the cities water system and one of the most experienced.
		Mulhollands carear was officially over after the collapse of the dam and he later died at the age of seventy two only seven months after the tragedy [4].
		It was concluded in the investigations against Mulholland that he should not have been in total control of the dam, and this is where the current law of having panels of experts approve of a municipal dam came to be.
	www.pitt.edu /~jtd6/event.html (2736 words)

	Mulholland - g3rr2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Mulholland is considered to be a great engineer and manager by the city of Los Angles yet seen as a despicable man by others.
		Mulholland’’s decline came be means of the St. Francis Dam collapse causing one of the greatest civil disasters in American history.
		Because Mulholland supervised the construction of the dam, filled the dam quickly, and ignored signs of it leaking dangerously, he was blamed for its collapse.
	www.hwr.arizona.edu /hwr203/reading/g3rr2.html (879 words)

	William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles
		William Mulholland was a fine-featured, handsome man, who, although a shade under six feet, always gave the impression of being taller because of his straight-backed, commanding presence and the penetrating gaze of his blue eyes.
		Mulholland was the second son of Hugh and Ellen (Deakers) Mulholland, born in Belfast, Ireland, on September 11, 1855.
		In old age, Mulholland told certain questioners that he had no recollection of his mother, who had died when he was seven, but to his children he sometimes spoke of her, remembering that her wit, lively nature, and love of song had been an antidote to his father's grim seriousness.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/8763/8763.ch01.html (3530 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Rivers in the Desert by Margaret Leslie Davis
		Mulholland's engineering mind could not help calculating--even amidst all this beauty--that within the Owens River were flowing at least four hundred cubic feet of water per second, enough water to provide for a city not of two hundred thousand, but of two million people.
		Mulholland realized that without the Owens River running through the middle of the valley, fed by the eternally melting snows from the High Sierras, the area would be as arid as the Mojave Desert and its only life would be cactus, sagebrush, and chaparral.
		Like conquering heroes, William Mulholland and Fred Eaton had discovered its beautiful secret, and as others would soon say, like thieves in the night, they were now conspiring to claim the valley's watery lifeblood as their own--no matter what the price.
	wwww.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook586.htm (3523 words)

	Encyclopedia: William Mulholland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Alternate meaning: Mulholland Dr., a movie named for the road Mulholland Drive is a well-known road in Los Angeles, California named after engineer William Mulholland that runs along the ridgeline (more or less) of the Santa Monica Mountains and their Hollywood Hills, between Coldwater Canyon Drive and the 101...
		Sunset Boulevard is a street in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, that stretches from Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Coast Highway at the Pacific Ocean in the Pacific Palisades.
		Mulholland was the favourite to become mayor of L.A. but when asked if he was considering it he replied "I'd rather give birth to a porcupine"
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/William-Mulholland (1227 words)

	News Releases
		William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles will be on display in CSUN's Oviatt Library Exhibit Room from Nov. 13 through Jan. 31, 2001.
		William Mulholland was for many years the chief engineer and general manager of the Los Angeles-owned Bureau of Water Works and Supply (now the Water System of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power) and was responsible for the construction of the Los Angeles-Owens River Aqueduct.
		Mulholland died in 1935, but his aqueduct is still in use today.
	www.csun.edu /~hfoao102/press_releases/fall00/mulholland.html (259 words)

	Karen Halverson Photographs
		Mulholland is a fifty-two mile road extending from the Pacific Ocean inland along the crest of the Santa Monica Mountains to Hollywood.
		William Mulholland, for whom the road is named, was the water baron who brought water to Los Angeles in 1913.
		Mulholland is at the juncture: it’s where human will and ingenuity meet the forces of nature.
	karenhalverson.com /portfolio/mulholland (188 words)

	William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
		Mulholland, a self-taught engineer, was the chief architect of the Owens Valley Aqueduct-a project ranking in magnitude and daring with the Panama Canal-that brought water to semi-arid Los Angeles from the lush Owens Valley.
		Mulholland takes you by the hand, almost as if you were on an tour with "The Chief", through Willaim Mulhollands childhood, departure from Ireland, to eventual settlement in Los Angeles.
		Mulholland's life is akin to a Greek tragedy, and this is the stuff of which history is made, not the mere recitation of facts.
	www.x8a.net /us-reviewed/0520234669.html (1957 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Mulholland was the “man who made Los Angeles possible.” Some would say that the building of the Los Angeles Aquaduct was theft of the water and economic future of the Owens Valley in eastern California.
		Mulholland built the aquaduct with public money using public employees and he was “on time and under budget.” When more water was required he expanded to the Colorado River and proposed “the big dam” which became Hoover Dam.
		William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles by Catherine Mulholland.
	www.ceh.org /programs/chautauqua/mulholland.html (217 words)

	L.A. water page
		Mulholland at age 31 became superintendent of the company.
		Mulholland and J.B. Lippincott teamed up, they knew the city needed water and the only way to get it was from the Owens River.
		William Mulholland left the DWP, shaken by the tragedy of the St. Francis Dam, 40 miles north Los Angeles.
	www.lausd.k12.ca.us /Reseda_HS/Waterweb/aquilarwtr/waterpage.text.html (548 words)

	@csun.edu
		Mulholland then proceeded to delight listeners by supplying those stories and anecdotes of life in the early days of the Valley, while unfolding the history of her family and her own experiences growing up on an isolated ranch in the northwest Valley.
		Mulholland spoke first of her maternal grandfather, John Haas, who came to Calabasas in 1888 when the population of the Valley "numbered only a few thousand." Beginning as a cowboy and a ranch hand, he often served as deputy sheriff "in the rowdy and sometimes violent little settlement of Calabasas," Mulholland said.
		Mulholland said she returned to a much different Valley years later and likened herself to Rip Van Winkle, finding herself in a place where little remained of the world she had known.
	www.csun.edu /~hfoao102/@csun.edu/csun96_97/csun113_97/features/historian.html (720 words)

	William Mulholland
		Mulholland and the City of Los Angeles moved in to buy up as much Valley land as possible, eventually taking ownership of 95 percent of farmland and towns.
		Mulholland retired that same year as head of the Los Angeles Water Department, carrying the blame for the dam's collapse to his death in 1935.
		Mulholland's persona in the film is loosely split between two characters in the film, water department chief Hollis Mulwray and water tycoon Noah Cross (played by John Huston).
	www.laalmanac.com /history/hi06de.htm (1040 words)

	Mulholland
		Elizabeth Mulholland does not appear in the papers again until 1869, when she was found guilty of being drunk and disorderly.
		The nature of these offences suggest that Mulholland had a bad relationship with her father, but whether this had been a factor in her drift into crime and prostitution cannot be tested.
		Elizabeth Mulholland appears not to have caught the interest of the press over the next few years, but her life must have continued to be a sad one of drink and dissolution.
	www.ayrshirehistory.org.uk /Mulholland/mulholland.htm (2072 words)

	Module 2
		Mulholland felt understandibly betrayed, and was unwillingness to see Eaton prosper from his secret purchase of the land that was so essential for the aqueduct’s construction.
		As a consequence of the Mulholland studies, the "Metropolitan Water District" was approved by the California legislature, as groundwork for the Colorado River Aqueduct.
		Mulholland was invited to the signing of the Swing-Johnsen bill, but retired in November of 1929 at the age of 73, and sent Harvey Van Norman, his replacement as Water Commissioner, in his place.
	coen.boisestate.edu /DHaws/module_1.htm (6356 words)

	Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		By failing to treat the bases for the numerous attacks which were made upon Mulholland and the policies he pursued, Matson effectively leaves his reader at a loss to understand why this grand old man should have been controversial at all.
		The treatment of Mulholland that results is not only misleading but also unfairly belittles his achievements which have shaped the history of water development in California for better or for worse.
		Matson, however, presents only a two-dimensional pastiche of the man, lifted for the most part from the recollections of Mulholland's associates, many of whom were writing long after his fall from power in an attempt to resuscitate his reputation after the Saint Francis Dam disaster and to save thereby the credit of their own careers.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/77winter/br-mulholland.htm (506 words)

	Cadillac desert - PBS summary
		Mulholland's Dream, the first episode in the four-part CADILLAC DESERT series, tells the incredible story of how the hunt for and the exploitation of water brought the city of Los Angeles to life -- and, literally, life to Los Angeles.
		William Mulholland emigrated from Ireland in 1878, and worked as a ditch digger for the L.A. water system.
		Mulholland knew he would have to find new water, and turned to the remote Owens Valley, 230 miles north of L.A. Between 1911 and 1923, Mulholland's agents quietly purchased 95 percent of water rights to the Owens River.
	www.ldeo.columbia.edu /~martins/hydro/case_studies/cadillac_desert.htm (1675 words)

	Ten-Fifteen: Building Nothing Out of Something: William Mulholland’s Damnation and Redemption (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Mulholland was a man obsessed – a man obsessed with engineering of Homeric proportions.
		Mulholland became the most celebrated man in L.A. That all changed on March 12, 1928, when the St. Francis Dam collapsed, releasing a 15 billion-gallon flood across a 70 mile-radius.
		Mulholland declared the dam safe, yet later that day, the dam broke open and released a 75-ft wave that washed over much of Ventura County.
	tenfifteen.typepad.com /weblog/2004/10/building_nothin.html (1135 words)

	A Mulholland Christmas Carol
		In this Scrooge Meets William Mulholland take-off, you are told that a recreation of the St. Francis Dam - 180 ft high and 600 ft long will be destroyed every night releasing 11.4 billion gallons of water.
		Robber baron William Mulholland- (OK maybe not a baron) is portrayed as a crotchety old geezer who is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past, dragging him through visions of his younger life.
		Mulholland sees his younger self, an idealistic young man willing to fight the world to bring water to the sleepy town of Los Angeles, even if means cheating, lying, deceiving and generally acting like a politician.
	www.reviewplays.com /a_mulholland_christmas_carol.htm (538 words)

	William Mulholland - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		William Mulholland - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		He was born in Belfast, Ireland and immigrated to New York City in the 1870s, traveled to San Francisco in 1877, worked as a miner in Arizona and finally moved to the city that would build his reputation, Los Angeles.
		PBS - The West - William Mulholland (http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/i_r/mulholland.htm)
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/William_Mulholland (540 words)

	H-Net Review: Sarah S. Elkind on William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles
		So, she adds tales of opposition and profiteering to a year-by-year account of the construction of the aqueduct, from initial planning to the final resolution of the lawsuits and land sales almost fifteen years after the project was completed.
		C. Mulholland's desire to challenge Los Angeles's reputation as a bully and a water thief is appropriate and overdue.
		C. Mulholland's year-by-year retelling of the story of Owens Valley, together with her descriptions of W. Mulholland's early career, creates an image of the man as dedicated, pragmatic, and at once distanced from and impatient with the political and financial maneuvering that accompanies huge public works.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=8650973199005 (1034 words)

	FilmStew.com • Frank Darabont Flows With Rivers
		Rivers in the Desert will tell the true story of Mulholland, considered a visionary who was vital in building modern Los Angeles, from his triumphant rise to his tragic fall.
		Mulholland designed the longest aqueduct in the Western Hemisphere to bring in water from the mountains, effectively transforming Los Angeles from a desert to an inhabitable environment.
		Ascending to wealth and fame, Mulholland saw it all taken away when a dam he constructed collapsed and killed more than 500 people.
	www.filmstew.com /Content/Article.asp?ContentID=4727 (281 words)

	William Mulholland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Mulholland (1855-1935) was born in Ireland, took to sea as young man, and arrived in San Pedro in 1877 where he found work as a ditch tender with the Los Angeles City Water Company.
		A natural leader, Mulholland, known affectionately as "The Chief," was entrusted with building a 233-mile aqueduct, the world’s longest at the time, to bring water from the Owens River north of Los Angeles to the San Fernando Valley, where developers awaited conversion of dry land into farms and housing tracts.
		Fifteen years later, on March 12, 1928, Mulholland’s career took a tragic turn when the St. Francis Dam, one of several dams built to increase storage of Owens River water, collapsed, sending 12 billion gallons of water into the Santa Clara Valley, north of Los Angeles.
	www.socalhistory.org /Biographies/mulholland.htm (383 words)

	THE SAINT FRANCIS DAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William Mulholland, stated at the inquest, "I envy the dead."
		William Mulholland, was the chief engineer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
		William Mulholland and the collapse of St. Francis Dam
	www.ejge.com /iGEM/Articles/5-kelita.htm (398 words)

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