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It's May 21st, 1924.

A pale moon hangs low in a remote stretch of California desert in Inno County.

The morning dawn is still hours away, but Wilford Watterson is wide awake.

He stepped out of his car, stealing himself against the cold night air.

And then he begins making his way toward a large concrete aqueduct.

Watterson and his brother Mark own the largest bank in the Owens River Valley.

For years, he and the other residents of Inno County have tried to stop the city of

Los Angeles from stealing their water and sending it 200 miles south.

But all their efforts have failed.

And within Inno County now struggling for survival, Watterson and a team of men have decided

to take action.

It's time to sabotage the Los Angeles aqueduct.

Watterson makes his way to a serpent of concrete and steel, slithering across the desert

12 feet wide.

Nearby, a team of men unload pickup trucks parked just below the aqueduct.

Their ranchers and farmers, and normally they work with shovels and livestock.

Tonight the men are unloading hundreds of pounds of dynamite.

The men finish laying the dynamite and step back.

The charges are set.

Now it's time to connect the detonator.

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