Then again, the Owens Valley Water Wars were a breezy day at Venice Beach compared to some of the darker days of California history. There was the 1880 Humboldt Massacre, in which unprovoked white ...

The Paiute people were the Native inhabitants of the Owens Valley territory in what is now the State of California. They built sophisticated irrigation canals to channel water runoff from the ...

In 1924, disgruntled Owens Valley residents bombed a stretch of the aqueduct, starting what became known as California’s “Little Civil War.” LA also relies heavily on water from the Colorado ...