A Green River reader
By: edited by Alan Blackstock.
Contributors: Blackstock, Alan, 1956-
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780874808377
Subjects: Natural history -- Green River (Wyo.-Utah) -- Anecdotes.; Explorers -- Green River (Wyo.-Utah) -- Biography -- Anecdotes.; Travelers -- Green River (Wyo.-Utah) -- Biography -- Anecdotes.; Green River (Wyo.-Utah) -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes.; Green River (Wyo.-Utah) -- Discovery and exploration -- Anecdotes.; Green River (Wyo.-Utah) -- History -- Anecdotes.
Genres: Anecdotes.; Biography
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Alan Blackstock; title: Beginnings : four streams in search of a river / Philip L. Fradkin; title: The Domínquez-Escalante journal / Fray Francisco Silvestre Vélez de Escalante; title: The explorations of William H. Ashley and Jedediah Smith, 1822-1829 / William H. Ashley; title: Kit Carson's autobiography / Kit Carson; title: An 1839 wagon train journal / Thomas J. Farnham; title: Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains / John C. Frémont; title: Death Valley in '49 / William Lewis Manly; title: Report of the exploring expedition from Santa Fe, New Mexico to the junction of the Grand and Green Rivers of the Great Colorado of the West / John Strong Newberry; title: Uintah Not What Was Represented; title: Deseret news; title: Green River: The Gateway / Wallace Stegner; title: The lost journal / John Colton Sumner; title: The exploration of the Colorado River and its canyons / John Wesley Powell; title: George Y. Bradley's journal / George Y. Bradley; title: A canyon voyage : the narrative of the second Powell expedition / Frederick S. Dellenbaugh; title: "Queen Ann" of Brown's Park / Ann Bassett Willis; title: Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico / Ellsworth Kolb; title: Now we're safe, now we're on the river : Bus Hatch's first Green River voyage / Roy Webb; title: The marks of human passage / Wallace Stegner; title: The Dinosaur National Monument / Earl Douglass; title: Shall we let them ruin our national parks? / Bernard De Voto; title: Dinosaurs, parks, and dams / David Brower; title: The battle for Echo Park / Russell Martin; title: The other "Place no one knew" / Roy Webb; title: A recent year / Philip L. Fradkin; title: Echo Park through Split Mountain / Ann H. Zwinger; title: Two-Snake days / Ellen Meloy; title: Terra incognita : into the maze / Edward Abbey.