Arthur De Wint Foote

From there he began his early career in business and construction ventures along the eastern seaboard of the US and in the West Indies basin.

(Ultimately it was completed by the federal government, i.e., the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, as the Arrowrock Dam project (1915), then the largest arid-lands irrigation scheme in the United States.)

Foote's Idaho home was built of lava rock and used his own cement formula; the site (43°31′26″N 116°03′47″W / 43.524°N 116.063°W / 43.524; -116.063) is near the outlet of the Lucky Peak Dam (1955).

[9] Now he envisioned a power plant housing an over-sized Pelton water wheel—the recently invented hydro-powered impulse turbine.

In 1991, Foote's North Star Mine Powerhouse was designated an International Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark.

He contributed technical papers to professional societies and published scholarly articles addressing public issues, especially re developing the West.

Their marriage produced a son, Arthur Burling Foote (1877–1964), who followed closely after his father's career footsteps, and two daughters, Betty (1882–1942) and Agnes (1886–1904).

[18] Arthur Foote's biography was written by his wife within her memoirs—which were collected by Rodman Paul and published in 1972 as A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West.

[19] In creating his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Angle of Repose(1972), the twentieth century novelist Wallace Stegner appropriated—with permission—portions of Arthur and Mary Foote's life stories from her memoirs (noted above).

[20] Stegner used passages taken directly from Mary Foote's actual letters and recast them as fictionalized correspondence of the novel's main character; his choices resulted in controversy within the literary community that continues today.