A place called Grand Canyon
Subtitle: contested geographies
By: Barbara J. Morehouse.
Series: Society, environment, and place
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Human geography -- Arizona -- Grand Canyon Region -- History.; Land use -- Arizona -- Grand Canyon Region -- History.; Landscape changes -- Arizona -- Grand Canyon Region -- History.; Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.) -- History.; Grand Canyon Region (Ariz.) -- History.; Grand Canyon Region (Ariz.) -- Environmental conditions.
Description: For most people, "Grand Canyon" signifies that place of scenic wonder identified with Grand Canyon National Park. Beyond the boundaries of the park, however, extends the greater Grand Canyon, a region that includes five Indian reservations, numerous human settlements, and lands managed by three federal agencies and by the states of Arizona and Utah.

A Place Called Grand Canyon is an unprecedented survey of how the lands and resources of the greater Grand Canyon have come to be divided in many different ways and for many different reasons. It chronicles the ebb and flow of power - changes in who controls the land and gives it meaning.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165]-191) and index.
Table of contents: title: Physical and cultural background; title: Westward expansion : 1870 to 1908; title: The National Park : 1909 to 1919; title: Park consolidation and expansion : 1920 to 1927; title: Park expansion versus a new national monument : 1927 to 1940; title: Frustrated expansion efforts and a new national monument : 1940 to 1969; title: Park and Havasupai Reservation expansion : 1970 to 1975; title: Subsequent and ongoing boundary issues : 1976 to 1995; title: Toward a (re)definition of Grand Canyon; title: Looking backward; title: and forward.