Damming Grand Canyon
Damming Grand Canyon

Author: Diane E Boyer

Publisher:

Published: 2007-05-07

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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In 1923, America paid close attention, via special radio broadcasts, newspaper headlines, and cover stories in popular magazines, as a government party descended the Colorado to survey Grand Canyon. Fifty years after John Wesley Powell's journey, the canyon still had an aura of mystery and extreme danger. At one point, the party was thought lost in a flood. Something important besides adventure was going on. Led by Claude Birdseye and including colorful characters such as early river-runner Emery Kolb, popular writer Lewis Freeman, and hydraulic engineer Eugene La Rue, the expedition not only made the first accurate survey of the river gorge but sought to decide the canyon's fate. The primary goal was to determine the best places to dam the Grand. With Boulder Dam not yet built, the USGS, especially La Rue, contested with the Bureau of Reclamation over how best to develop the Colorado River. The survey party played a major role in what was known and thought about Grand Canyon. The authors weave a narrative from the party's firsthand accounts and frame it with a thorough history of water politics and development and the Colorado River. The recommended dams were not built, but the survey both provided base data that stood the test of time and helped define Grand Canyon in the popular imagination. Also by Robert Webb: Lee's Ferry

The Promise of the Grand Canyon
The Promise of the Grand Canyon

Author: John F. Ross

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2019-05-07

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 0143128957

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“A convincing case for Powell’s legacy as a pioneering conservationist.”--The Wall Street Journal "A bold study of an eco-visionary at a watershed moment in US history."--Nature A timely, thrilling account of the explorer who dared to lead the first successful expedition down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon—and waged a bitterly-contested campaign for sustainability in the West. John Wesley Powell’s first descent of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in 1869 counts among the most dramatic chapters in American exploration history. When the Canyon spit out the surviving members of the expedition—starving, battered, and nearly naked—they had accomplished what others thought impossible and finished the exploration of continental America that Lewis and Clark had begun almost 70 years before. With The Promise of the Grand Canyon, John F. Ross tells how that perilous expedition launched the one-armed Civil War hero on the path to becoming the nation’s foremost proponent of environmental sustainability and a powerful, if controversial, visionary for the development of the American West. So much of what he preached—most broadly about land and water stewardship—remains prophetically to the point today.

Tertiary History of the Grand Ca–on District
Tertiary History of the Grand Ca–on District

Author: Clarence Edward Dutton

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 9780816521814

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The classic geological study of the Grand Canyon, commissioned by the fledgling U.S. Geological Survey, is admired today as much for its literary qualities as for its scientific value.

Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries
Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries

Author: John Wesley Powell

Publisher: Franklin Classics

Published: 2018-10-08

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780341807773

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Seeing Things Whole
Seeing Things Whole

Author: John Wesley Powell

Publisher: Shearwater Books

Published: 2001-07

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13:

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Seeing Things Whole presents the essence of the extraordinary legacy that John Wesley Powell has left to the American people, and to people everywhere who strive to reconcile the demands of society with the imperatives of the land.

Down the Colorado
Down the Colorado

Author: Eliot Porter

Publisher:

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 12

ISBN-13:

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One hundred years ago John Wesley Powell set out to explore the Grand Canyon of the Colorado - something no man had attempted before. His official report of the voyage remains one of the great adventure stories in all the literature of the American West.