The Glen Canyon country
Subtitle: a personal memoir
By: Don D. Fowler
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781607811275; 9781607811343
Subjects: Description and travel; Travel; Antiquities; Archaeologists; Discovery and exploration; Explorers; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-406) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prelude; title: The Glen Canyon country and its first explorers, 1776-1856; title: Mapping and defining the Glen Canyon country; title: John Wesley Powell and the Canyon country, 1867-1869; title: Powell and the Glen Canyon country; title: Powell, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Canyon country; title: Laccoliths and grand staircases : the work of C.E. Dutton and G.K. Gilbert; title: Glen Canyon country geology in the twentieth century; title: Colorado Canyon Railroad and gold fever : Stanton and Spencer; title: Romancing the Glen Canyon country; title: Pack trips and river running : exploring the country for fun; title: Harnessing the Colorado River; title: Early archaeology in the Glen Canyon country; title: The enamored explorers; title: The Glen Canyon Project : beginnings; title: Implementing the Glen Canyon Project; title: The 1959 and 1960 seasons; title: The 1961 and 1962 seasons; title: The Museum of Northern Arizona and the Glen Canyon Project; title: Lives and times of sojourners in the Glen Canyon country; title: Postlude: The Glen Canyon country of the imagination.