- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 289 p.) : ill., maps.
- Uniform Title
- Damming Grand Canyon (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Damming Grand Canyon (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Water and the Colorado desert -- Where should the dams be? politics, the Colorado River Compact, and the Geological Survey's role -- Prelude to an expedition : Washington and Flagstaff -- A cumbersome journey : Flagstaff to Lee's Ferry to the Little Colorado River -- Surveys and portages : Furnace Flats through the Inner Gorge -- Of flips and floods : Bass Canyon to Diamond Creek -- Feeling their oats : Diamond Creek to Needles -- Aftermath : politics and the strident hydraulic engineer.
- LCCN
- 2006103108
- OCLC
- ssj0000535652
- Author
Boyer, Diane E.
- Title
Damming Grand Canyon [electronic resource] : the 1923 USGS Colorado River expedition / Diane E. Boyer and Robert H. Webb ; U.S. Geological Survey ; foreword by Michael Collier.
- Imprint
Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, c2007.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Webb, Robert H.
Geological Survey (U.S.)