Wrecks of human ambition
Subtitle: a history of Utah's Canyon Country to 1936
By: Paul T. Nelson
Publisher: The University of Utah Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781607813330; 9781607813347
Subjects: Discovery and exploration; Canyons; Mormons; History; Description and travel
Other titles: History of Utah's Canyon Country to 1936
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-291) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: linear and crooked landscapes; title: Inventing Teguayo: Old World Christians and New World deserts; title: Encountering Teguayo: the partial legacies of Rivera and Escalante; title: Old Spanish trails and trappers' tales: the dawn of Canyon Country commerce; title: United States explorers: disgust, intrigue, and making sense of an American desert; title: River bottoms to mountaintops: the Canyon Country surveys of  John Wesley Powell; title: Good settlers and bad land: Mormon views of land and environment; title: The rim of Mormondom I: missions to the eastern Canyon Country; title: The rim of Mormondom II: success and failure in the western Canyon Country; title: Beyond agriculture: desert gold and tourism; title: Coda: modernity approaches an American desert; title: Time line.